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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Thomas Mott Osborne '84, former warden of Sing Sing State Prison, Ossining, N. Y., will speak at the First Parish in Cambridge, Harvard square, next Sunday evening at 7.45 o'clock. Mr. Osborne will make his experiences while warden the subject of his address...
...best-known writers in English literature, like O. Henry, have been forced by circumstances to discover and improve their talents. Daniel Defoe developed his literary style and gathered the material for "Jonathan Wild," "Captain Avery" and other stories of criminal life while confined in a London prison. John Bunyan, the wandering preacher, became John Bunyan, the author of "Pilgrim's Progress" during his imprisonment in Bedford jail. It is possible that neither of these men would have achieved the fame he now enjoys had it not been for the time to think that was imposed upon...
...great work which the Y. M. C. A. is doing in the war zone all over Europe, Asia and Africa, is to provide entertainment for the men in the base camps, the prison camps and the hospitals, in order to prevent them from becoming morose and unmanageable, and thus keep them in better mental health...
...throughout all his factories, domestic and foreign, which has brought him to the front of employers of labor. His remarkable way of dealing with the many thousands of men in his employ has won him a foremost position as a practical sociologist. His interest in prison reform has led him to offer jobs in his factories to men just out of prison, and he now employs 600 ex-convicts from Sing Sing prison...
...Secretary of War Baker; F. C. Howe, commissioner of immigration at the port of New York; Dr. J. B. Scott, secretary Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Rev. Frederick Lynch, secretary Church Peace Union; H. S. Houston, president Associated Advertising Clubs of America; G. W. Kirchwey, warden of Sing Sing Prison and president of American Peace Society; Senator Henri LaFontaine of Belgium: Professor Shailer Matthews of the University of Chicago; John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American Union; Senator Fall of New Mexico; Professor W. I. Hull of Swarthmore, and Dr. G. W. Nasmyth of the World Peace Foundation...