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...student opinion at Harvard. It cannot successfully rival the Boston and New York papers (or even the Cambridge Sun) for news of international or national affairs. Any intelligent student wants to know more than the poor material offered in the CRIMSON on these matters. As for your articles on Norfolk, you simply do not know what you are writing about Your article is one-sided, shows an ignorance of the facts and real issues involved (which are not Hurley vs. Gill) and a most personal bias which is unworthy of and unbecoming to a journalist...
...task of investigating the prison system of Massachusetts, Auditor Hurley was ordered by Governor Ely not to give out any information until the report should be completed. The League for Independent Political Action's Committee on Prison Justice recently ascertained that the many exaggerated and alarmist years about Norfolk, which appeared from time to time in the Boston Herald, came direct, from Mr. Hurley's office to their State House reporter...
...difficult to see that this confusion results from a failure to distinguish between an investigation of particular conditions at Norfolk, which would have fallen to the province of Commissioner Dillon, and a general penal investigation, whose outcome belongs to Mr. Dillon's superior. Governor Ely is at fault in not having made this distinction, in giving carte blanche to Mr. Hurley and then in refusing to face the implications which that carte blanche contained. whatever adjustment he may make must be a rough adjustment, for particular and general issues must be differently handled, and their fusion in the Auditor...
...attack on the entire Massachusetts prison system. Mr. Hurley has done yeoman work in making the knot more difficult by violating the governor's injunction against publicity, and by spreading through the newspapers a hopeless mass of sensational and unclassified criticism. The first inference to be drawn from Norfolk is that it would be desirable to place prison officials under civil service, in which a consistent disciplinary mechanism has been evolved. If Mr. Gill had been under civil service, the question of his competence would have been decided before he embarked upon a revolutionary prison policy, whose success demands continuity...
...yesterday's article, R. Clark Christie, discharged bookkeeper and treasurer at Norfolk, was incorrectly referred to as an inmate. Mr. Christie was not an inmate, but a resident at the prison...