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...Reform is impossible without reference to the individual wants of the different men. Under the contract system there is no classification; the convicts are brought together indiscriminately...
...reform the convicts is of more importance than to save expense.- Report of the U. S. Labor Commissioner for 1886, pp. 312, 318, 326, 328, 340, 364- chap. IV. in general...
...that the Class Day tickets are being distributed, it is the duty of everyone to see that they are not given to objectionable persons. A little forbearance in this matter will work a notable reform. For the last few years an improvement in this respect has been noticeable, and if proper care is taken this time, '87 will do its share to make the observance of Class Day what it should...
...still worked for his department. Everywhere he went he met the statement, 'I write well enough, and I was never taught English.' This hostility, or at best indifference, had to be overcome. Finally he drew to himself the young and enthusiastic supporters, with whom he has carried on the reform until the English department is accounted one of the best in the college...
...wish, therefore, to ask if cases of this more recent kind do not deserve a like punishment at the hands of the authorities. Not that I think such punishment will result in the moral reform of the offender. But is it right that the students in large courses should have to suffer from the unscrupulousness of a few worthless fellows, who are allowed to go about with impunity...