Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Then capital punishment was largely done away with, and the problem of prison reform entered in. Conditions changed so that a few years ago the prisons almost all had the honor system. The men worked together in silence and separated at night. Some few 'trusties' were allowed to go outside the walls to do menial labor. But it was not a success; it was in fact a distinct failure. Two-thirds of the graduates from the prisons came back for another term, and most of the rest did not return only because they were too clever to be caught...
Parliamentary Reform Assured...
...First Parish in Cambridge, Harvard square, tomorrow evening at 7.45 o'clock on his experiences as warden. He has devoted much of his time to the study of conditions in our penal institutions, and for three years has served as chairman on the New York Commission on Prison Reform. Later, at Sing Sing, he introduced many improvements in the conditions of the prisoners...
...fighting this year is one peculiarly dear to Harvard men who have vanquished the vaunted spectre of indifference and who feel themselves called to a wider, nobler, service than that to which the usual political program leads. For, after all, the tariff, the merchant marine and civil service reform, however long and heatedly they may be discussed are not the dominant issues of this campaign. The pivot on which the election really turns is the maintenance of the national spirit, of that love of liberty which does not seek to become license that has made America great in times past...
...second half-year, and will lecture on the "Social Organization of the Argentine Republic"; S. K. Ratcliffe, editorial writer on the Manchester Guardian, who will deliver four lectures on "Makers of English Life and Thought," and Louis U. Wilkinson of Oxford, whose subject is "The Evolution of Modern Reform in England...