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...There have been radical changes in prison conditions during the last century", said Warden Hendry of the Massachusetts State Prison in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "No longer are prisoners bolted to walls in their cells, made to walk lock step with a ball and chain around their foot, or fed on bread and water and forced to live in a dungeon. The life of a prison inmate today corresponds to average everyday life with of course necessary restrictions...
...matter. Both crews seemed to realize this at the same time for both strokes called on their men for a last effort and both shells answered with an identical increase in speed. Thayer, setting the pace for the Unions, now made a final effort to break the dead-lock. The stroke in the graduate shell was already in the neighborhood of 34, but it was raised to 36 and inch by inch the older men drew ahead...
...home in Oklahoma. She was defeated for re- election last Fall, and now she says that she is through with politics- except for writing an account of her experience in Congress. "I have permission to print it in the Congressional Record and my first move will be to lock myself in a room and finish it. It will be my farewell to politics." The cafeteria business, which she abandoned at the time she entered Congress, she will not reenter. She expects to live on her farm. The chief point that she is proud of in her Congressional career...
...only place where Anglo-Saxon reticence breaks down completely is the playhouse. In general, the Englishman or American likes to do his crying alone. He will lock himself in his own room, equip himself with smelling salts or a bottle of gin and a sponge, and have a good quiet weep. In the same way, he dislikes rising to high pitches of public hilarity. A reserved smile, or at most a genteel snicker is all he will permit himself in the presence of his associates. But under the sheltering darkness of the playhouse, he will be trapped into any extreme...
...condemned, not because they were wrong in principle, but because they followed no principle save that of political expediency. Undoubtedly it is better to have Mr. Lloyd and his friends free to move their soap-boxes from corner to corner unchecked, than to keep them under lock and key. Highly volatile gases are far more dangerous confined than when allowed plenty of room for expansion. But when the Governor of a state overrides a law and frees prisoners at the very beginning of their sentences in the face of a decision by the Supreme Court that the law is constitutional...