Review the reading selection used in the practice exam. Make a journal of all dense or unfamiliar vocabulary found in the passage, the stems, or the answers. Look up and record the actual definitions from The Beast by Ben B. Lindsey and Harvey J. O'Higgins ("The
Children's Judge," who founded the first children's court in America, tells the story of his fight with the powers of privilege in Colorado. In
the following extract, he narrates what came of a newspaper interview on the subject of the conditions under which children were kept in
prison.) The result was an article that took even my breath away when I read it next day on the front page of the newspaper. It was the talk
of the town. It was certainly the talk of the Police Board, and Mr. Frank Adams talked to the reporters in a high voice, indiscreetly. He
declared that the boys were liars, that I was "crazy," and that conditions in the jails were as good as they could be. This reply was exactly
what we wished. I demanded an investigation. The Board professed to be willing, but set no date. We promptly set one for them-the
following Thursday at two o'clock in my chambers at the Court House and I invited to the hearing Governor Peabody, Mayor Wright,
fifteen prominent ministers in the city, and the Police Board and some members of the City Council. (1) On Thursday morning-to my
horror- learned from a friendly Deputy Sheriff that the subpenas I had ordered sent to a number of boys whom I knew as jail victims had
not been served. I had no witnesses. And in three hours the hearing was to begin. I appealed to the Deputy Sheriff to help me. He admitted
that he could not get the boys in less than two days. "Well then," I said, "for heaven's sake, get me Mickey" (2) And Mickey? Well, Mickey
was known to fame as the worst kid in town." As such, his portrait had been printed in the newspapers-posed with his shine-box over his
shoulder, a cigarette in the comer of his grin, his thumbs under his susp
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