Word: view
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible that there can be no definite assumption as to over population in the college. The optimistic and benevolently humanitarian view is that such is not the case and that opportunities for further education, no matter how general or wasteful, are never to be closed to any class or type of mind. The other view is more depressing and, at present, more popular with educational leaders. It would have been interesting and even informative to have secured. President Angell's attitude What he has offered is to the point in so far as the ornaments of his theme are concerned...
Crime. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes of New York stated the view of crime which underlies the drastic criminal code written by him and lately enacted in his state. "Crime as a problem is mainly concerned with the hardened repeater ... an organized business comparing favorably with the methods employed by our best concerns. . . . The modern bandit shows no mercy whatsoever. . . . These Baumes laws have been passed in order to put real backbone into the work of the judiciary...
Justice Frederick E. Crane of the New York Court of Appeals elaborated the view that punishment of criminals should take the form of compulsory restitution to society of whatever the criminals have taken from society. "When a man has killed another, why should the widow be left to starve when this man, under the law, might be compelled to provide a living...
...decidedly graphic description. Gullible readers devoured it. Careful readers laughed, for it was a fact, published in newspapers throughout the land, that W. E. Playfair of the Associated Press was the only newspaperman permitted in the death house to view the execution...
...over her kidney Was a bird's-eye view of Sidney...