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Schools Which Prepare for Prison

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escapades were tagged in newspaper stories with the familiar label, the editors should consult this volume to make sure that they were what they were so frequently claimed to be.

A careful observance of this practice, it was believed, would save the venerable institutions from the too prevalent suspicion of being a nursery of crime. Judge Alfred J. Talley, of New York, recently made a speech in which he declared, among other things, that there were enough college graduates in the prisons of the United States to man the faculties of all the colleges. This remark led Mr. Lewis E. Lawes, the warden of Sing Sing Prison, to investigate the accuracy of a generalization which is obviously as interesting to educators as to penologists. He discovered that, out of 1,388 convicts under his charge, 5 were college graduates. This is a proportion of about of 1 per cent. Obviously, these five holders of academic degrees do not constitute a force large enough to recruit the faculties of all the higher educational institutions of New York State, where there are probably several thousand men engaged in academic instruction. There is little doubt that other states would make a similar showing. The experience of so famous a collector of ne'er-do-wells as the warden of Sing Sing may therefore be taken as sufficiently disproving the thesis that an undergraduate course in itself forms a stimulating preparation for criminal activity.

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The Henry E. Huntington Library at San Marino, California, will pass, on the death of its owner, into the possession of the American public. It contains, in addition to such famous masterpieces as "The Blue Boy" of Gainsborough, manuscripts and first editions that rank as the most priceless of such treasures in existence, and its bequest to the nation forms the greatest single gift from an individual to his country in the world

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