INDEPENDENCE DAY 



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RING, RING FOR LIBERTY 



Independence Day 



SUGGESTIVE PROGRAMS 



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Hail, Independence, hail ! Heaven's next 



best gift 

 To that of life and an immortal soul ! 



Thomson 



Song, America 



Essay, The Story oj the Declaration of 



Independence 

 Reading of the Declaration 



The Rising in 1776 Read 



Essay, What Is True Patriotism? 



Concord Hymn Emerson 



The Battle of Lexington Lanier 



Essay, Why I Love My Country 



Ticonderoga Wilson 



Tableau, The Spirit of Seventy-Six 

 After the painting by Willard 



The Old Continentals McM aster 



The Little Black-Eyed Rebel. . .Carleton 

 Essay, A Tribute to Washington 



The American Flag Drake 



Song, Hail Columbia 

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Oh, let freemen be our sons, 

 And let future Washingtons 

 Rise to lead their valiant ones, 

 Till there's war no more. Pierpont 



Song, Columbia the Gem oj the Ocean 



The Ship of State Longfellow 



Flag salute 



Girls may be dressed to represent 

 the states 



The Name of Old Glory Riley 



Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill.. 



Holmes 



Essay, The "Sane Fourth" Movement 



Song of Marions Men Bryant 



Essay, A Tribute to Franklin 



The "Flag Goes By Bennett 



Essay, What My State Has Done for the 



Country 



America for Me Van Dyke 



Paul Revere' s Ride Longfellow 



Nathan Hale Finch 



Song, Star-Spangled Banner 



From the day of this Declaration the people of 

 North America were no longer the fragment of a 

 distant empire * * *. They were a nation, 

 asserting as of right, and maintaining by war, 

 its own existence. A nation was born in a day. ' 



INDEPENDENCE HALL. See PHILADEL- 

 PHIA, subhead Famous Buildings. 



INDETER'MINATE SENTENCE. In the- 

 ory the object of the imprisonment of criminals 

 has always been reformation and not venge- 

 ance, but in actual fact the punishment idea 

 has too often been foremost. The sentence 

 for each crime has been fixed by law or has 

 been left in a degree to the judgment of the 

 court, and little or no account has been taken 

 of the character of the offender. In recent 

 years, however, there has developed a some- 

 what different attitude toward the penal sys- 

 tem. Two purposes, declare reformers, should 

 govern the commitment of any wrongdoer to 

 a reformatory or prison: he should be con- 

 fined for the safety of society and for his own 

 moral betterment, and his confinement should 

 last long enough to accomplish these purposes, 

 and no longer. 



Obviously, they argue, it is impossible for a 

 judge to tell how long a man will require to 

 become fit to mingle again in society, and the 

 sentence therefore should be indeterminate 

 that is, indefinite. The ideal thing, according 

 to prison reformers, would be an absolutely 

 elastic sentence, which imposes no limits but 

 leaves the question of release or detention to 

 properly-selected prison authorities. Nowhere, 

 however, has the principle been pushed to this 

 extreme, nor is it likely to be until conditions 

 in prisons and reformatories have been con- 

 siderably changed. 



But the indeterminate sentence in a more re- 

 stricted sense the sentencing of a man for a 

 term of not less than one or more than four- 

 teen years, for instance is in force in a num- 

 ber of the states and provinces of the United 

 States and Canada. The system was first 

 worked out in New York in connection with 

 the Elmira Reformatory, and later was tried 

 in connection with the state prisons in that 

 state. Gradually it has gained ground, and 

 while it has not been unqualifiedly successful, 

 there exists little doubt as to its superiority 

 over the older inflexible method. 



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