Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEBATE OF WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, AT 3 P. M. IN U. 16.Subject: Resolved, that the Contract System of Prison Labor should be abolished...
...contract system defeats the real purpose of penal institutions, the repression of crime by the reformation of the criminals.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor (1886), pp. 36, 37, 88 et. seq., 134-136; Report of the United States Labor Bureau (1886); Report of Charles F. Peck, New York commissioner, pp. 312; also...
...negative Mr. Chenoweth declared that the jury system was liable to great abuses and that the chief reason the anarchists were sentenced was because the people of Chicago thought the blood of the murdered policemen called for vengeance. They only meant to forestall a change in the present social state of things, and we must beware of making martyrs of them by persecution. The hope was expressed that the Anglo-Saxon love of fair play would assert itself...
...second time the Cambridge common councilmen have killed an order passed by a large majority in the board of aldermen for the introduction of the police signal system...
PROF. LOISETTE'S MEMORY DISCOVERY.- Prof. Loisette's new system of memory training, taught by correspondence at 237 Fifth Ave., New York, seems to supply a general want. He has had two classes at Yale of 200 each, 250 at Meriden, 300 at Norwich, 100 Columbia Law Students, 400 at Wellesley College, and 400 at University of Pennsylvania, etc. Such patronage and the endorsement of such men as Mark Twain, Dr. Buckley, Prof. Wm. K. Harper, of Yale, etc., place the claim of Prof. Loisette upon the highest ground...