Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Osborn until recently was an active figure in fraternal and civic affairs. He was a crusader for prison reform methods...
George C. Osborne ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 14 (AP) - George C. Osborne, 80, well known prison reform advocate and for 10 years warden at the New Jersey penitentiary, died here late yesterday...
...suggested to the emotional that a young man's fancy should turn--and not lightly--toward thoughts of higher things than the mundane meanderings of the college year. So Northfield and its ilk again call the serious to the saw dust and the star dust of moral and spiritual reform...
...back by mental conditions of which their best friends are often unaware." This ought to be a platitude. And to seek a remedy for introspective unbalance is to attempt to control what ordinarily, like Topsy, just grows. It is to enter a field of progress more fundamental than pedagogical reform or curricula revision, but unfortunately not so well known. Men now juggle the mechanical details of education with some confidence. When, however, they enter with dogma into the realm of psychology, they exhibit the daring of folly. Freud is in part a fallen idol of the subjective psychologists; while...
...contemplated will prove utterly harmless, in fact, ineffectual. Reputable physicians and conservative psychologists are not likely to follow the uncertainties very far. The force that is lacking in their psychological advice and treatment, they will undoubtedly supply in the form of amateur philosophy. In other words, though the proposed reform is a novelty, it is likely to thrive on the saws of the ancients...