Word: treatments
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...Life of Franklin, by Paul E. More, A. M. '93, covers ground more threshed out, and tells a more practical and less romantic story. It is ably and comprehensively written, and is also marked by generosity of treatment. The public side of Franklin is made prominent, but the author also discusses his religion at some length. The cavils against his character he considers are refuted by the eulogy of Washington. It is pleasant to find two books on much criticized men of the past which express such liberal views...
Professor Wendell has no author or group of authors that he is especially bent on praising or dispraising. Some individuals, as is natural, he handles better than others. His estimate of Edgar Allen Poe is excellent for its swift comprehension. And it is quite in contrast with the treatment that Poe has received from many impressionistic critics. This chapter and Professor Gates's essay supplement each other...
...Each exhibitor to mark on a card on the back of each picture the amount of work he did himself; but in every case the treatment must have been made by the exhibitor...
...accompanying record of the number of men and women receiving particular wages. The work of Dr. Bodio in compiling Italian statistics of labor twelve years ago, though considered valuable at that time, is now entirely discredited on account of his incorrect method of classification. The great development in the treatment of wages statistics has come from this side of the water. Entering upon a field new and unexplored, the American statistician gradually evolved the system of individual classification with the concentration method. For this method there is a classification of weekly wages and a determination of percentages of the number...
...wages question is perhaps the most important branch of political economy and its subjective treatment is attained by the use of statistics. But it is essential that the user of statistics should understand the proper method for constructing them, and the attendant difficulties. There are four great sources of error which are to be avoided in securing statistics. First, observation is not trustworthy; there must be reliable figures and they should cover a considerable space of time. Second, the distinction must be kept in mind between "average" and "arithmetical mean." Third, in dealing with percentages the basic numbers must...