Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disuse. "When flogging was resorted to, the occasion was always one of great solemnity." The president and fellows, tutors and students assembled in the library; the sentence was read in their presence and the offender made to kneel before them. The president then offered a prayer after which the "prison-keeper at Cambridge" attended to the performance of flogging. The exercises were closed with prayer. A student thus chastised was "suspended from taking his degree," and required to sit alone and uncovered at meals as long as the president should...
English 6. Oral debate. University 16, 3 p. m. Subject: "Resolved, that the Contract System of Employing Prison Labor should be Abolished." Principal disputants-Affirmative: Mr. T. Clyde and Mr. D. T. Dickinson; Negative: Mr. W. Coulson and Mr. G. W. Cram. Open to all students of the University...
DEBATE OF WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, AT 3 P. M. IN U. 16.Subject: Resolved, that the Contract System of Prison Labor should be abolished...
...This competition has often proved ruinous in particular occupations; profits and wages have fallen in a marked degree as a result of the low price of prison-made goods.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor (1886), pp. 94-97, 98 et. seq., 117, 118; Science, Vol. VII., pp. 117, 143, 168; United States Report on Convict Labor...
Subject: "Resolved, That the Contract System of employing Prison Labor should be abolished...