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While cocky Mr. MacCracken was getting his habeas corpus writ. Col. Brittin, gaunt and bespectacled Spanish-American and World War veteran who had learned to fly at 55, began his prison sentence in the dingy red stone District jail. The warden asked him what he could do. He said he knew clerking...
Four members of the Harvard faculty were included on a committee of ten citizens who met with Governor Ely this week in support of Howard B. Gill '13, now under fire in the investigation of the Norfolk Prison Administration. The professors who discussed conditions at the prison with the Governor were William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity; Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology; Kendrick N. Marshall '21, Instructor in Government; and J. Anton de Haas '11, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships...
Harvard Medical School authorities were offered yesterday the body of Henry C. Bull, recently executed in the Charlestown state prison. This came because of a last minute request by Bull that his corpse be given to "some scientific institution...
Ever concerned for his wards' morale and rehabilitation, Sing Sing's Warden Lewis E. Lawes already had a full-fledged prison school supervised by a civil service employe, with educated inmates on the faculty. But looking over his Depression crop of prisoners, Warden Lawes decided some of them needed more advanced instruction. N. Y. U.'s Commerce Dean John Thomas Madden agreed...
...women of the Young Friends' Discussion Group in Phillips Brooks House last night, Russell G. Olsen '36 placed blame for the mishandling of the Norfolk situtation squarley on the shoulders of Francis X. Hurley '34, State Auditor, and on the Boston Herald and Traveler, Olsen asserted that prison officials should be under the Civil Service Commission...