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...present lull in the Norfolk controversy is no more than a recognition by its principals. Auditor Francis Hurley and Superintendent Gill, of the fact that they have been arguing to an empty court. Massachusetts law specifies only that the superintendents of state prisons are removable "at the pleasure of the Commissioner of Correction," who is an appointee of the governor. The tenor of Mr. Hurley's investigation, which was authorized by the governor to extend not only to the Norfolk accounts but to the whole of the state penal structure, is such that Commissioner Dillon is obviously disqualified from passing...
...know much about penology," declared State Auditor Francis X. Hurley '24, yesterday in a CRIMSON interview. "I don't claim to know anything about it. I'm a lawyer." Questioned concerning his opinion of Mr. Gill's administration at Norfolk, he declined to comment, saying that he would present all the facts in the case in his report, but that he did not intend to interpret these facts. He stated that it was against his wishes that his investigation of the Norfolk Prison Colony burst into print recently, and that its extensive publicity was due to the avidity of news...
...that it is all over a few more cold crisp facts concerning Mr. Julian Lowell Coolidge's one-auditor-and-no-enrolled-student course come to light. The course, faithful readers will recall, was given the airy spaciousness of Harvard 4, where Professor Coolidge had plenty of room for forensic effects on the lecturer's platform, while the auditor took notes feverishly and otherwise played the role of a full class. One day, during a lecture, a minor luminary of the janitorial force appeared at the door, looked in cautiously, then advanced bodily, into the almost empty hall. "Hello...
Another time the auditor found that he would be unable to attend the class at nine o'clock. A bit appalled by what might take place he called the professor and explained the situation. "Can you come at ten?" the professor asked. That suited the auditor perfectly. So at ten o'clock Mr. Coolidge held forth in Harvard...
...political field in self defense against his attacker's storm of criticism. The unnecessarily violent controversy has already made inroads upon the morale of Norfolk, and thrown a specialized and non-political institution into the quagmire of partisan dispute. That a technical prison investigation should be conducted by an auditor is inappropriate enough; but that the newspapers and public should consign it to the limbo of ward politics is grave injustice to a public servant whose honesty, ability, and usefulness to the state have never before been questioned...