Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motor southwest from Chicago, when you are almost within sight of Joliet, a big sign appears on the right of the highway: STATEVILLE. Behind it rises a broad, bare hill across whose desolate skyline stretches a wall. Above the wall rise four great, drab cheeseboxes. These are the cell blocks of Illinois' model penitentiary. Here, last week, occurred the first major prison riot of the year...
Warden of Stateville is Henry C. Hill, who also is in charge of the old State prison at Joliet, five miles away. Last month three convicts were trapped and killed as they tried to escape from that institution (TIME, March 2). Later a man died of heart failure while shackled in solitary confinement. Fortnight ago the angry inmates rioted (TIME, March 23). Two died from wounds...
This probably will be the last appearance of the Glee Club in conjunction with the Boston Orchestra this season. There is, however, a possibility that there will be a repetition of "Ode", a choral and orchestral setting by E.B. Hill '94 of a poem written by Robert Hillyer '17 commemorating the founding of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Hill ocC, captain of this year's tennis team, playing with his wife, entered the quarter-finals along with A. C. Ingraham '31, who is paired with Miss Katherine Winthrop. These two teams meet tomorrow to decide which will enter into the semi-finals of the tourney...
...Hill has come through the first two rounds at the expense of Harvard players. In his first round he and his partner defeated Key and Mrs. Frank Godfrey, 7-5, 6-1, while yesterday they took the measure of Coggeshall and Mianne Palfrey in a hard-fought match, by a score...