Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ends for which the book is designed. The aim throughout is to explain, without needless formality, the difficulties met by instructors in English A, and the methods used to obviate them. In the introductory chapter, the nature and mechanics of the course are briefly described. Common faults and their treatment are then taken up, with well-chosen examples for reference. Here the freedom of the book from the usual wearisome repetition of rules and stock sentences is particularly noticeable...
...will not be long before all the present narrow streets running from those grounds to the new parkway will be so choked with expensive buildings that this much needed improvement will become impossible." A public hearing is asked for, at which a statement will be submitted showing a possible treatment of the streets in question...
Aside from the editorial, the number contains four poems, two book-reviews and three stories. Of the poems, perhaps the most considerate treatment--and for a reader the most profitable treatment is to pass them by. "The Story of a Diamond Ring," by G. C. St. John, is hardly worth its seven pages of space; it has an original and interesting plot, which might have been the foundation for a good story of less length, but is not capable of giving vividness to column after column of dialogue, description and rather inefficient character portrayal. "The Innocence of John...
...which present themselves to the members of a democracy are treated by him in the specific forms which they assume for American citizens. Among the topics which are specially discussed are the Indian question, the negro question, woman suffrage, machine politics and the recent territorial extension of power. The treatment of all these subjects is rendered more interesting, convincing and helpful by Dr. Abbott's characteristic optimism and breadth of view and by the way in which he sees the divine principle in every day things...
...book is essentially one for reference, rather than for casual reading. In style it is broken and too full of extracts to be easily or pleasantly followed, a fault which is made worse by the scientific manner of treatment that pervades most of the chapters. The remarks on communal forms of poetry are, however, of considerable interest to the general public and should be of value to every student of verse in its primitive forms...