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On Saturday afternoons, Jewell worked at the Union Gospel Mission where she helped to design a curriculum for the Industrial School, an adult education evening school offered to laborers. Those who administered the industrial school system could respond to these allegations by suggesting both that corporal punishment in the industrial schools was consistent with prevailing practice in homes and schools across the country, and that institutions that catered for such large numbers of neglected, and in some cases delinquent, children could not function without a stringent corporal punishment regime. Jim Thorpe was a grand football running back, a proud Native American, a college player who led his Carlisle Indian Industrial School team to victory, and the winner of gold medals for the decathlon and the pentathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games. |
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