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...only the states in which the colored population is large that would be affected by the proposed reform. Massachusetts herself, with her literacy qualification for suffrage, would probably lose at least one congressman by a rigid application of the proposed laws regarding representation. Because of other northern states in a similar position, an investigation and its resulting readjustment would be felt in all parts of the country, although of course, in varying degrees...
...fact that the management was having great difficulty in finding men who would agree to entertain the visiting runners. There are eighteen schools represented, he said, and of these, only six have clubs at Harvard. In closing, he suggested that here is at first hand an opportunity to reform the present attitude of undergraduates toward prep school men. Otherwise teams from the twelve schools which have no alumni organizations at the University, will have a cold welcome a week from Saturday...
...Republican party has long enjoyed the reputation of being a better business organization than the Democratic, and its supporters will and in the new budget bill much to praise. It is, of course, a long-looked for reform in government administration,, and the arguments in favor of it are familiar to everyone. No business organization would attempt to get along without a budget, and in many cases a large company will have individual budgets for its various departments. The government is the greatest business organization in the country, and it is almost humorous to think that in this land...
...advocated the total abolishment of prisons in this country at the Liberal Club dinner held last night in the Trophy Room of the Union. Mr. Sanford Bates and Mr. Thomas Orrin, respective penal Commissioners of Massachusetts and Boston, also spoke the later refuting Mr. Baldwin and advocating the reform rather that the abolishment of prisons...
...There is no such thing as a good prison no matter how much you reform it", said Mr. Baldwin. "The whole idea that you can benefit men and women by inflicting punishment upon them is wrong. We all have within us potential criminality; and the most law abiding members of society would commit crimes if they were placed under the same conditions as the majority of the so-called criminals of this country. Most of the 4,00,000 persons imprisoned in the United States are young men, arrested for petty crimes, the result of hunger or poverty...