Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characteristic of our present-day educational reform that everything is made as easy as possible for the pupil. The effort of attention is reduced to a minimum by the employment of all sorts of devices for making the subject interesting. "Child psychology" with its array of "complexes" has driven from the field the older method of teaching by rote. We are further shifting the emphasis from the dry and musty Classics to the newer and more fascinating Sciences. But though we try to impart a great deal of information, it is against modern principles to demand the expenditure...
...advocated the total abolishment of prisons in this country at the Liberal Club dinner held last night in the Trophy Room of the Union. Mr. Sanford Bates and Mr. Thomas Orrin, respective penal Commissioners of Massachusetts and Boston, also spoke the later refuting Mr. Baldwin and advocating the reform rather that the abolishment of prisons...
...There is no such thing as a good prison no matter how much you reform it", said Mr. Baldwin. "The whole idea that you can benefit men and women by inflicting punishment upon them is wrong. We all have within us potential criminality; and the most law abiding members of society would commit crimes if they were placed under the same conditions as the majority of the so-called criminals of this country. Most of the 4,00,000 persons imprisoned in the United States are young men, arrested for petty crimes, the result of hunger or poverty...
...return to "Madam" as may have been surmised for the above, it is a novel which propose to reform neigh the world as a whole nor any particular par of it. The setting of the story is in London, the time the years following immediately after the war. For characters it has many who stand out shapely as individuals, chief among them being Mott Lane, a boy from the English country-side who turns radical and, in theory at least. Revolt against state of society the brought about the war. But the author concerns herself little with his radical tendencies...
...main addresses is "The Failure of Our Prisons", and while both speakers agree on the word "failure", they ascribe it to different causes and will probably suggest different remedies, Mr. Baldwin being in favor of abolishing prisons altogether and Mr. O'Brien advocating nothing more radical than reform...