Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers the following new courses for next year: Social Ethics 5, a half-course in the second half-year, the moral responsibilities of the modern state with charity, crime, defectives, popular culture, the family, religion, international peace; Social Ethics 6, a half-course during the second half-year, social amelioration in Europe; Geology 10, a half-course in the second half-year, geomorphology...
...undeniable music, but most of the sense is beyond me. H. T. Pulsifer's sonnet on Lincoln is, like much of the verse on the theme published during the last month, a trifle too high-pitched to suggest absolute sincerity; and to be insincere about Lincoln is a crime. The American people have doubtless been much moved in recalling their great hero, but it is only the poets who have been blinded by "a veil of sudden falling tears...
...Woods first described two phases of police activity that are little known by the general public. The policeman, when arresting a criminal is really a judge of the first instance, who must quickly decide what constitutes a crime. He is also the only authority in the land in the eyes of the new immigrant, who knows nothing of Constitution or Congress. If he forces some poor push-cart man to give him a bribe, the immigrant forms his ideas of American justice from that action. These two phases greatly increase the need of an honest police force...
Many charges have been made by the New York newspapers that burglary has been increasing, due to the inefficiency of the police and detective forces. There is no possible proof that crime is on the increase, because, up to last year, only an imperfect and fragmentary record of the cases was kept. The policeman is not really responsible for the inefficiency of the force. If an over-zealous officer arrests a man who is influential in his ward, he is certain to get into trouble; if he makes too many arrests, he becomes disliked by the other policemen...
...hilarity. The wife of the bourgeois enters, newspaper in hand, and reads about the gruesome murder of a coal-heaver's daughter which has been committed in the rue de Lourcine. The two listeners find coal upon their hands, and all the evidence points to their having committed the crime during hours of which they remember nothing. Panic-stricken, they proceed to drown their fear in curacoa, which proves very effective. They attempt to murder all the inmates of the house and thus destroy all evidence. Happily they are too intoxicated to carry out their purpose, and they finally discover...