Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...content with having dealt such a staggering blow at the above-mentioned professor, they print an article entitled "The Classics and Courtesy," in which another instructor has his character badly mangled. Some glimmering of its nature may be derived from the following sentence: "Perhaps there is something in the nature of the classics (for it is in the men who have to do with these that we notice chiefly a tendency to Johnsonian faults) which, when it has impregnated the human system, works upon the internal organization of its victim, and finally culminates in a morbid sensitiveness in regard...
...wish to suggest, what is not at all a new idea, that when students are amenable to the civil authorities they be left to them to be dealt with, that in cases of mere disorder in the yard or rooms the penalties be done away with. No one, I think, has noticed that smoking in the yard has become more frequent since the abolition of the rule against it. That the same result would follow in the case of disorder is probable...
...immediate abolition of all restraints on students' time and conduct; but it is exceedingly important as being an official expression of the opinion that has been steadily gaining ground for several years past, both in college and out, that if students are to behave like men, they should be dealt with as men. There are doubts and prejudices in many minds tending to delay the desired changes in this direction, and these words will do much toward removing these obstacles...