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...Robert Winsor of 73 Main Street, Framingham, Mass.; Williston Academy Easthampton, Mass, Storey, James Moor-field of 229 Perkins Street, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Groton School, Groton, Mass...
...wonder of our society is not why feeble-minded people get into state prisons, but why feebleminded people can get into state legislatures," Miriam Van Waters, Superintendent of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham, said last night. She spoke on "Crime and Culture" before the Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Radcliffe's Agassiz House...
...Miriam Van Waters, Superintendent of the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women at Framingham, will speak at 8 p.m. Friday, April 22, in the Agassiz House living room at the spring meeting of the Radcliffe Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Van Waters's topic will be "Crime and Culture...
...State Reformatory for Women was overwhelmingly vindicated, has been an enlightening interruption in a brilliant career. As Dr. Van Waters herself said, the fight against Commissioner McDowell has been useful in making the public concerned about the problem of female delinquents. Dr. Van Waters treated inmates at the Framingham institution as students working patiently back into society. The Commissioner, on the other hand, considered transgressors as prisoners who had to be forced to respect...
...Griswold Commission, of course, was not primarily concerned with McDowell and Dwyer. But the Commission properly noted that McDowell had exceeded his authority in some of his orders to Dr. Van Waters last summer, and that Dwyer's 1948 "investigation" of Framingham "did not create a favorable impression"-- which seems to be an officially polite expression for a truly disgraceful episode...