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...Russian terms included a proposal to abrogate the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905; but it is considered extremely unlikely that Japan will give way on this point. This treaty was the one that ended the Russo- Japanese...
...University will hold a short open meeting at 6.45 this evening at 8 Church Street, when the Rev. Harold E. B. Speight, D.D., will present the details of the Conference of Liberal Students which will be held this summer at Star Island, ten miles at sea off Portsmouth...
...Newton High N. O. Seigfreid '23, back 22 5.08 156 Hutchinson High F. B. Smith '24, quarterback 22 5.06 151 Dean Academy T. Smith '23, back 22 5.11 171 Scott High G. T. Stevens '25, quarterback 19 5.09 146 Powder Point R. C. Sweetser '25, guard 19 5.09 177 Portsmouth High M. V. Swenson '23, guard 24 6.01 204 Elgin Academy J. T. Taylor '23, guard 22 6.00 197 Johnstown High L. A. Thompson '24, center 20 6.04 194 Senn High M. H. Watkins '24, end 20 6.00 173 Shaw High S. P. Wright '25, back 19 5.11 167 Terril...
This principle is the basis of all Mr. Osborne's work, and he has had an opportunity to show that it can be worked out among those who are supposed to be least capable of acquiring any ideal, the criminal class. In the Sing Sing, Auburn, and Portsmouth prisons, he has proved the principle, though conditions prevented carrying it out fully. The prisoners, bound together in a league that made them responsible to and for one another, preserved their own discipline and left the prison much less antagonistic to society than when they entered...
...Portsmouth naval prison presented the most difficulties and hindrances possible to such a plan from the nature of the Congressional ruling regarding military prisoners. Formerly sailors who had served a sentence at Portsmouth could not return to the service and were thrown on their recources, branded criminals often for offences of comparatively slight importance. Commander Osborne, however, secured a channel for pardons, and instilling into his men a spirit of good citizenship, sent 2700 of them back into the service, after shortened terms, during his three years in office. A very small proportion of these men, despite the prejudice...