Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Constructive experimentation is undeniably the order of the day in higher circles of education. While Harvard tests the value of the Reading Period, Yale again faces a most vital proposition which, in view of President Angell's treatment of it in a speech delivered recently and printed in the current issue of The Yale Alumni Weekly, is not only of prime significance to every Yale man but to the educational world in general...
...problem which has since 1914, when the creation of a Third College to stand parallel with Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School was first broached, occupied a more and more prominent position in the consideration of all those connected with Yale. Now with the recent thorough treatment of the subject by President. Augell the question is place squarely before everyone. And as he requests, counsel and advice are neces sary before a successful solution may be secured...
...such as: "Davey Tree Surgeons will not treat any tree for you that in their judgment is too far gone. The reason for this is obvious to them, but you with your untrained eyes must depend on their professional honor. . . . Davey Tree Surgeons will give nothing but first aid treatment to a tree that is starving. . . . Many clients urge them to break this rule by treatment of a hopeless case. . . . They answer: 'Yes, but our reputation is at stake...
...purveyor of that nostrum has something more valuable, to himself, than its ingredients. He has a precious name. He calls it the "Golden Treatment," and thereby he trades quackishly on the fame of the late Dr. Leslie E. Keeley. Keeley Cures (a few still exist) loudly but dubiously used the double chloride of gold in "curing" drunkards...
...double chloride of gold. He prated: "It acts like vaccination, eliminating from the system the element which has an affinity for the poison in alcohol. . . . Gold acts on the higher cerebral nerve centres, the seat of the diseased will and the mania for strong drink." Because his treatment had some practical success, simple folks fixed their memories on gold. Therefore the subtle plausibility of the Haines Golden Treatment...