Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until later in life that Mr. Osborne became actively interested in the problems of prison reform. In 1913 he was appointed chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform, which went into a thorough investigation of conditions then prevailing in New York state prisons and elsewhere throughout the country. During this investigation Mr. Osborne spent a week in the Auburn prison as a convict. His report which he issued after his experiences there gained, him nation wide prominence for the first time, and soon after he was appointed Warden of Sing Sing Prison...
Transportation Costs. Because of flat increases in freight rates during the War, agricultural products, and especially live stock, bear a disproportionate share of transportation costs. The whole freight-rate structure needs thorough revision. The Conference will later make definite recommendations regarding the agricultural aspects of such a revision...
...lingers. It is either true or untrue. That the legislature has not thought fit to interfere neither proves nor disproves the charges. But Harvard men--both graduates and undergraduates--can not rest upon this noncommittal result. The interests of the University demand that the Alumni assume responsibility for a thorough investigation by the proper authorities to establish the facts...
Dean Pound's contributions to the work of penetrating and analyzing the law are known to every student of jurisprudence. His well-rounded erudition, his thorough and complete understanding mark the Supreme Court as the ultimate bound of his deserts. But with this scholarship there is a rare mingling of humanness and strength which has won for Dean Pound a preeminent position among academic administrators and for the Law School a prestige scarcely rivaled. The dean took hold of this department at a time when the earlier generation of juris-consults, including Langdell, Ames, and Thayer, had died, leaving...
...need of explanation and defense. This year he can announce that all of the departments in the College are employing tutors except those of Mathematics and Physical Sciences--and for them it is obviously unfitted. Indeed, those changes are also being made which are necessary to allow its thorough development, such as the reduction of the number of courses required in the Senior year from candidates for distinction. The ardent advocate of the tutorial system is apt to be impatient that no further lightening of course requirements has been made, and is apt to balk at President Lowell's statement...