Word: warden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Osborne then told how he had been appointed warden of Sing Sing and to explain the league which he had instituted there. He showed how willing the prisoner was to do his part if an opportunity was given him. To prove this he cited instances where men had gone out and led straight lives, and read extracts from several letters, of which the most significant one was the following: "You ask me how I have been doing. I should be an awful fur if I should make a promise and then break it. You never want to be untrue...
Thomas Mott Osborne '84, former warden of Sing Sing State Prison, Ossining, N. Y., will speak at the 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...
Thomas Mott Osborne '84, former warden of Sing Sing State Prison, Ossining, N. Y., will speak at the First Parish in Cambridge, Harvard square, next Sunday evening at 7.45 o'clock. Mr. Osborne will make his experiences while warden the subject of his address...
...speakers will be Secretary of War Baker; F. C. Howe, commissioner of immigration at the port of New York; Dr. J. B. Scott, secretary Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Rev. Frederick Lynch, secretary Church Peace Union; H. S. Houston, president Associated Advertising Clubs of America; G. W. Kirchwey, warden of Sing Sing Prison and president of American Peace Society; Senator Henri LaFontaine of Belgium: Professor Shailer Matthews of the University of Chicago; John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American Union; Senator Fall of New Mexico; Professor W. I. Hull of Swarthmore, and Dr. G. W. Nasmyth of the World...
...Rescue" is a gloomy story of hereditary insanity. Anna Warden, a young girl of a family tainted with suicidal mania, is expectantly watched by an aunt scarcely sane herself. The aunt's morbid and excited precautions are rapidly sending Anna the way of her ancestors. She is rescued by a faithful old servant who tells her that she is an illegitimate child and "not a Warden" except in name. The story is a lie; but it saves the girl, who goes, with new hope, to work. The play is well written and was well acted throughout. Miss Ellis...