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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...
...given a reception by the Cercle Francais in the club room, Grays 17, next Thursday evening at 7.30 o'clock. M. Brieux is widely known in this country and abroad not only as a dramatist of the first rank but for his keen interest in every branch of social reform. He has used the stage as many men use the pulpit or lecture room, and he has used it with far greater effect. Some of his best known plays are "La Robe Rouge," "Simone," "Les Avarieux," and "Les Trois Filles de M. Dupont...
...that the subject matter which he is being taught is mainly theoretical, and that little of it is practical. Especially is this idea apt to be held by one entering into the field of government and economics. Old beliefs as to the hesitancy in adopting various institutions of reform in governmental matters of the city, state, and nation are rapidly disappearing. New methods of city government, as taught to students in the University, are now given consideration by those in public authority. In this connection it is interesting to note the recommendations made by Professor W. B. Munro...
Professor Hugo Muensterberg's newest work has just left the German press, being a volume of 767 pages entitled "Grundzuge der Psychotechnik." It covers ground which had not been systematically treated in any language, developing the application of psychology to education, law, commerce, industry, politics, social reform, art, history, natural science, and medicine. Some of these topics are discussed in an elementary form in his less technical books, "Psychotherapy," "On the Witness Stand," "Psychology and the Teacher," "Psychology and Industrial Efficiency," and in a little volume to appear this month, "Psychology and Social Sanity," but while all these books were...
...suffragists, is a grand-daughter of Henry Clay. She was elected to the vice-presidency of the National Suffrage Association quite recently, and soon became one of its most active and influential leaders. She has spoken for her cause all over the country and is very prominent in social reform measures in her native state, Kentucky, having for many years held the presidency of the Civic League of Lexington, a non-partisan association of men and women which interests itself in reform legislation. While in this office, she was largely instrumental in obtaining the passage of the compulsory schooling...