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Thomas Motte Osborne '84, warden of Sing Sing state prison, Ossining, N. Y., will speak on "Humanizing the Prisons," in Emerson J this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The lecture will be under the auspices of the Political Science club. Although his chief work has been in the line of prison reform, Mr. Osborne was twice mayor of Auburn, N. Y., and also chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee. His prison work really started with his appointment two years ago as chairman of the State Prison Commission. In order to obtain a better insight into prevailing conditions...
Thomas Mott Osborne '84, warden of Sing Sing state prison, Ossining, N. Y., will speak on his prison reform work to all those interested, in Emerson J Monday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The talk will be under the auspices of the Political Science Club...
...Osborne has been twice elected mayor of Auburn, N. Y., and at one time was chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee. Two years ago he was appointed chairman of the State Prison Commission, and, wishing to learn of the existing conditions, served a voluntary term of six days in the Auburn Prison. During this time he lived exactly as the convicts in every detail of then life. This gave him experience which in was later able to use to good purpose. His recent appointment to the wardenship of Sing Sing gave him his opportunity, and since his assumption...
...stories to text-books on economics. Among the most important of these are "Works," by Charles C. Grafton LL.B. '53; "Christian Life in the Modern World," by Francis G. Peabody '69; "Democracy of the Constitution," by Henry Cabot Lodge '71; "Paris War Days," by Charles Inman Barnard '74; Within Prison Walls," by Thomas Scott Osborne '84; "The Boston Symphony Orchestra," by M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87; "Clark's Field," by Robert Merrick '90; "The Judicial Veto," by Horace A Davis '91; "Boys of Eastmarsh," by Fisher Ames, Jr., '92; "The College Course and Preparation for Life," by Albert Parker Fitch...
During the later years of Mr. Eliot's presidency Harvard was singularly indifferent to the housing of her students. A couple of modern but prison-like dormitories were built in an unfortunate location, but for years the College neither modernized its old dormitories nor attempted to regulate the investments of private capital. It was held to be the affair of the capitalists if they put up more and more luxurious buildings on what soon became known as the "Gold Coast." The result was that Harvard not only got the name of being a costly college to attend, but of encouraging...