Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...forms of public address. There is no actual speaking in the course, but every student is required to draw up two briefs, and to write five manuscripts of 1000-1500 words, two of which must be arguments. The choice of topics for the other three manuscripts and their treatment will largely be left to the discretion of each student, but it is expected that he give himself practice in eulogy, the after-dinner speech, and the platform or commemorative address...
...first number of the Lampoon appeared yesterday. The editors have achieved success in turning out a very amusing number, and the distinct local flavor that runs through the pages makes the subjects of treatment interesting. The number is lacking, perhaps, in illustrations of artistic merit...
With a keen eye for situtation and a good judgment for details, Mr. Mitchell builds up a very well constructed play; but in conception and treatment of character he often fails so notably that his drama loses much of its ethical and aesthetic value. Becky, in particular, whom Thackeray made a perfectly animate literary creation, as far beyond analysis as a living woman, becomes in the play a bundle of catalogued qualities tied together with a cord...
...striving of an Irish girl toward a life which was too dazzling for her ignorance to resist, and the savage grief of her disappointed brother. "In the Thirsty Land" by Rowland Thomas takes its color from the South African war, but it is by no means a common place treatment. Simple pathos is interwoven with a powerful description of the mazes of a wounded man's wandering thoughts. A play, "Mr. Brent's Wife" by James Regnart, shows the rapid development and demolition of an improbable crisis which is characteristic of a light farce. H. L. Warner '03 contributes...
...brighter, do not dispel. The leading editorial, though the point is well concealed, gives the impression of an attempt to treat a question of real interest in light vein, and is in this way a commendable departure from the conventional rambling vehicle for chance flashes of wit. But the treatment is unfortunately inconclusive, and the writer, apparently aware of this, follows the good old Lampoon fashion and introduces an allusion to recent hour exams, instead of pointing his intended moral...