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Thomas Mott Osborne '84, the wellknown advocate of prison reform, will speak on "What the Criminal Thinks, in Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society at 7 o'clock tonight...
...welcome to all students, and especially to students in the west, where conditions here are not so fully understood, it is essential that certain barriers--whether real or rumored--be demolished. It would seem that a sane alteration of our peculiar entrance requirements would offer the first opportunity for reform; a more liberal attitude would undoubtedly do much to popularize Harvard in many sections of the country...
Upon his return to America he was prominent in the formation of the American Legion, finally being nominated for the presidency of the organization, which honor he declined. In 1919 he was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he has been an advocate of many reform bills and prominent in the fight for clean politics. He is also the author of "Average Americans," which was published...
There are signs, indeed, that the reform has already begun. The more flexible rules for distribution, the tutorial system, the appearance in Phi Beta Kappa of names associated with undergraduate activities, all point that way. We want no more standardized product,--we want men. Realization of this end rests ultimately with the undergraduate...
Every field of human activity has its peculiar innovation in this age of radical reform. The Fabians and their kin are busy penning their scholarly dissertations; and more humble intelligensia, essays for handbill and pamphlet. The artist folk, in timely appeal to the aesthetic boobery, sanctions and cherishes Armfield's "synthetic drama" and the futurist antics of Marinetti. The reader of the newspapers learns with astonishment that the aeroplane has been successfully adopted by criminals for purpose of escape, and that Trotzky is producing a series of communistic plays which he is forcing the hapless Russians to attend...