Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whole object of any penal system, said Mr. Osborne, is the safety of society. The great question before penologists, then, is to determine whether this can best be brought about through harsh punishment or reform. The old system was based on the supposition that punishment was the effective means. Far from succeeding, the treatment the men obtained made them hate everyone and everything, and they left prison with a desire for revenge upon society. They took the first advantage to commit crime once more, and usually landed back again in prison. The punishments used were often so brutal, the absolute...
Perhaps the solution of the prohibition question at class smokers lies in a local option vote. At any rate the Forum has the livest sort of topic for consideration...
...meetings alone from which mean excluded through an unwillingness make themselves conspicuous by them stinence. The temperance movement now national and even international scope, and it is only natural that a student body so representative as the Harvard should at last begin to explore itself vigorously upon this vital question of the hour...
...attitude of the great American universities upon any social question with ways go far toward determining in the nation. Harvard has always stood for the highest ideals of manhood in contemporary society could Whatever may have been true in the today this highest ideal includes the temperance. Any official sanction use of alcohol is no longer in with the spirit and social duty of the university...
...vote of 43 to 38, the University Forum expressed the general opinion of the student body as favoring the policy of President Wilson and the Democratic administration. The chief phases discussed by the undergraduates were the foreign policy, both in Mexico and the Philippines, the trust question, the Panama Canal tolls, the diplomatic appointments, and the currency and tariff acts...