Word: gills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hanover, N.H., Feb. 14--Under the able guidance of its new coach, Herb Gill, the Dartmouth hockey team has developed into a fast, hard-checking, and high-scoring sextet which is without doubt one of the best amateur clubs in the country. The team promises to remind Dartmouth hockey followers of the time when Myles Lane captained the aggregation which made Dartmouth hockey history back in 1927. The improvement comes at a particularly welcome time, for since those days hockey in Hanover has been definitely on the down grade...
...first article in its creed is that all of the basic problems, all of the really sensational problems of our society, should not be touched; the large type is reserved for those who are either helpless or insignificant, who can be expected to feel the storm without retaliation. Superintendent Gill of Norfolk presented an obvious opportunity. He is a subordinate state official, engaged in a revolutionary penal experiment, without important political or financial backing. He has, as the administrator of sizeable appropriations, made many important political enemies. Prisons are good copy for the sensational journalist; the common-place...
...data on the Norfolk controversy are available to anyone. The prison has been open to visitors since Mr. Gill became superintendent; last month W. Cameron Forbes wrote a careful and scholarly report on Norfolk and Mr. Gill's administration. Yet the published report of an eminent public official has been ignored, and press leaks on an unpublished report, made by the State Auditor, have furnished the material for a wild newspaper campaign, although no charge made by the Auditor has been proved and although the Auditor was forbidden by Governor Ely to release any advance publicity on his findings...
With the publication of this report the real issues at Norfolk had been presented to the Governor. On his return from Bermuda February 9, Mr. Ely indicated that he would defer action on the Norfolk situation until he had examined Mr. Hurley's report and considered Mr. Gill's comments on it. "Norfolk is a great institution," he added, "but this ambitious experiment in the rehabilitation of felons must not be menaced by the possibility of failure because of the loss of a large section of public support in a subordinate state official." He questioned whether Mr. Gill, the originator...
...first indication of strong public backing of Superintendent Gill was seen in a circular letter sent to 1000 ministers by Rev. George Lyman Paine, secretary of the Greater Boston Federation of Churches, urging them to support Gill's administration...