Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Mott Osborne '84, noted penologist and champion of prison reform, who gained national prominence as reform warden of Sing Sing prison, will lecture again this year at the Phillips Brooks House on November...
...Osborne's career as a reformer, first as chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform and later as Warden of Sing Sing and as Commander of the Naval Prison at Hortsmouth, N. H., has attracted nation wide interest...
When he resigned from Maine last July, his criticism of the support given the university by the state was sharp and to the point. In accepting the new position, he felt that the opportunities for educational reform were far greater than at Maine, as the University of Michigan is much larger in numbers and in facilities...
...Senate Reform. Canadian Senators are at present appointed for life by the Governor General, on the recommendation of the Premier in power when a seat falls vacant. In the past there has been a majority of Conservative Premiers, who the Liberals claim have stuffed the Senate with old-foggyism. They will ask the electorate for power to "end or mend" the Senate. Conservatives will maintain that Solons of the Senate's present calibre would not stoop to campaign for their seats, would abandon the Senate to featherbrains, if not honored as they deserve for life...
...issues which could be disposed of only by a new parliament and a party with a substantial majority in the House. The four issues are: 1) transportation-plans for a combination in ocean carrying; 2) immigration undertaking of a vigorous distributing policy; 3) reduction of taxation; 4) senate reform-making the senate elective instead of appointive and depriving it of all but a suspensory veto...