Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the last century France has had to expiate her crime of allowing so many centuries of evil government. But now at last she is free. It is not a prince of the royal blood, but a man made famous by the movement for liberty, who is now the ruler of the country. The nation has finally reached the goal toward which it has been struggling, and is only the more fixed there for her agonies. Social as well as political lessons have been taught by the Revolution. The government now recognizes the necessity of education for the masses...
...Dodge, '91, second on the affirmative, said that prohibition is the only right method, as drinking tends to crime; therefore, intemperance must dealt with in the same manner as crime, by prohibition, not by license. Prohibition will prohibit, but it will take time, as is always the case with great reforms. High license will merely connive at the evil, prohibition will stifle...
...Angell, president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has offered a prize of one hundred dollars for the best essay on "The Effect of Humane Education in the Prevention of Crime." The prize is open to competition by all students of universities and colleges in the United States...
...many illicit distilleries in the South which will be sure to increase under a prohibitory law as they have increased under high license. Mr. D. C. Torrey then spoke ably for the negative. He referred to Nebraska and Iowa. Nebraska with high license has a steady increase of crime. Iowa has total prohibition and the number of arrests in the state has decreased remarkably...
...regret that it is not more elaborate. The idea of "Misericordia," is good and the style is clear and well-worded, but the brevity and disjointedness of the treatment detract much from the general effect of the story. Of a very different style is the story of "A Crime," from the French. It is vivid and picturesque, though the plot-a dream of a man who contemplated murder-is too horrible to be pleasant. The best article in the number is "Is in a Seaport Town." The description of the old decaying seaport town is charmingly written. The verse...