Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Such is the condition of affairs in the Transvaal. Such are the outrages which the Uitlanders had to endure. Is it to be wondered at that England should demand redress, or to be deplored that she should ask an equitable treatment of her citizens? She demanded for the Uitlander justice. She did not demand that he be given control of the government or even an equal share in its administration, but she asked that he be given a voice in the expenditure of taxes, and that measure of protection which every civilized power grants to foreign residents within its territory...
British colored citizens were maltreated, and in the law British subjects received unfair treatment. These two facts gave England the right to interfere. Even setting aside the special justification of England's claim, there still remains the broader, the firmer, the higher ground of the supreme law of mankind, the inalienable right of any international state to protect its citizens from injustice in a foreign land...
...story that the undergraduate reader thoroughly enjoys. Very different from "Ruth," is J. P. Sanborn's frail story, "Conclusions." Like Cyrano de Bergerac, the writer may be said to "set forth to capture a star and then to stop to pick a flower of rhetoric." In style and treatment, "Conclusions" is good and clever. But it has the tone of the over-done, and throughout it there is constant striving for effect. "The Point of View," by J. G. Cole sC., is a pleasant sketch of a not very ingenious sort. The plot is conventional and the characters are common...
...Thomas Girtin, Paul Sanby and John Varley. These are all characteristic examples, and serve to show what were the artistic ideals, and the technical methods, which prevailed in the English School of the early part of the century now closing. While more or less conventional in both conception and treatment, these works are generally well composed and exhibit the skill in the use of pure water-color wash for which this school was remarkable and exemplary...
Owing to the recent ungentlemanly treatment of visitors in the gallery of Memorial Hall by the members of the Dining Association, the Board of Directors has decided to close the gallery during meal hours until further notice...