Prompt 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-I learned from a friendly Deputy Sheriff that the subpoenas 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 corner of his grin, his thumbs under his susp
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