Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard, dear, old, trustworthy Harvard, is planning a course for prison wardens. If this is not "reductio ad absurdum" to the limit, we are at a loss to understand what it is.... Just what degree will be awarded at the conclusion of this work in higher education is not as yet suggested but very likely it will be something imposing like "B. B. R." meaning "Bachelor of Bum Rehabilitation...
From experience with Harvard men generally it would seem certain that graduates from prisons presided over by these "B. B. R's" will no longer call prison "stir," nor $1,000 "a grand" or use any of the rest of the argot of the underworld we now know. Rather we may expect "Chappie" to replace "Cul" as a title of address and "loot" to take the place of "swag." All of which will be quite a bit pleasanter to the car, we admit, but quite outre. New Haven Register...
...hierarchy, will gather beside the $800,000 marble mausoleum of Warren Gamaliel Harding for the somewhat belated dedication of the late President's tomb. The same editions carry the announcement of the day's decision by the United States Supreme Court denying ex-Secretary Fall's appeal from his prison sentence...
...fact that Harvard is doing that," he said, "recognizes the need for competence and intelligence in prison direction. The man so trained, mostly in theory I take it, could then step into practical prison work better equipped for intelligent direction...
...layman can have any idea of the multiplicity of qualifications which a man must have to administer a large prison efficiently, economically and with the best results both to the prisoner and the society which imprisons him," said Commissioner Patterson. "In addition to natural qualifications of tact, poise, firmness, tolerance and the ability to understand the other man's viewpoint, wardens must know something of finance, buying, mass feeding, discipline, agriculture, education, recreation, medicine, psychiatry and many other things in order to administer a prison efficiently and along modern lines...