Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This study was initiated through the desire of the department of Mental Diseases to secure comparable anthropological data to be correlated with the elaborate psychiatric and sociological records of country jail prisoners of Massachusetts which the division has been gathering for over three years," Professor Hooton explained to a CRIMSON reporter...
...first the investigation was confined to an examination of county jail prisoners, but later it was thought advisable to extend the study to the more serious offenders in penal institutions of the State, and to the criminal and the civil insane. The investigation so begun has now developed, on the anthropological side, to a survey of criminals in selected areas of the country at large...
...full of cockeyed consomme, petting nights and sad-eyed days -one just knows that Elinor Glyn wrote the original story. But old irony played its ace and The Mad Hour turned out to be tragedy. Cuddles married a rich man, got mixed up with a crook, was sent to jail, lost her child, committed suicide...
...Griggs's final assault states that the colleges make capable students "do time" by retaining for four years the man who has covered the ground in two; and especially, that teachers who have completed all the required work are obliged to "serve a jail sentence to get the M.A. and then the Ph.D. degrees." But the four-year requirement is not inflexible. At Harvard alone a fairly large number of candidates receive their degrees in three or three and one-half years; and if any of Dr. Griggs's two-year men should ever come to the University, they...
...botanist could have predicted, the rose of romance burgeons in the sawdust. In this case, the male principal is Gino (Charles Farrell), who paints minor masterpieces more often than he takes a bath. When Gino takes Angela back to Naples, the police recognize her and clap her into jail. When she is finally released, Gino exhibits a desire to strangle and a passion to wed. Noble, he weds. The warm, misty sky of Naples and the warm beauty of Miss Gaynor were not missed by the camera...