Word: overcrowdedness
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There is no doubt but that the American colleges of today are overcrowded, with evil effects for all concerned, but the restriction proposed at Yale seems to be of questionable value. After correlating secondary school and college records, the Yale Board of Admissions has found that those who finish their...
To Protestant Nebraskans who crowded into Omaha to gawk and wonder, the Congress seemed just what it was, a great convention staged with more splendor than Protestants are wont to marshal. The Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate at Washington, opened the religious program with a pontifical high mass...
RED SNOW-F. Wright Moxley-Simon & Schuster ($1). This novel undertakes to finish off the human race and does so in 400 overcrowded pages. The cause of the end is mysterious. On Aug. 17, 1935, occurred a short fall of red, snow-like flakes, penetrating buildings and clothing. No consequences...
In the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. supper begins promptly at 3:10 p. m. Reason: the institution is so overcrowded that eating must start early to get the last convict fed before bedtime. To remedy this and many another condition of convict-herding, which goaded U. S. prisoners to...
New York State gained national attention and considerable imitation when it first led out stiffly against Crime with its famed Baumes Laws. These severe penal statutes overcrowded the state's prisons with life-term felons, helped breed the fierce despair among herded inmates which fired last year's...