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At about the same time, 50 students turned up in Lowell House Courtyard to hear John W. Curtis '70 read a transcript of the address delivered by Joseph Warren on March 5, 1772, on the first anniversary of the Massacre.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Citizens and Students Observe Bicentenary Of Boston Massacre | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

But Curtis noted in his address that "the ruinous consequences of standing armies to free communities may be seen in the histories of Syracuse, Rome, and many other once-flourishing states."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Citizens and Students Observe Bicentenary Of Boston Massacre | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

Dressed in tri-corner hat, colonial waistcoat, knee knickers, and silk stockings, Curtis expounded on the horrors of the British armed occupation : "our beauteous virgins exposed to all the insolence of unbridled passion. and our virtuous wives falling a sacrifice to worse than brutal violence."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Citizens and Students Observe Bicentenary Of Boston Massacre | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

A few minutes after Curtis began to speak. a group of Tory renegades unfurled the Union Jack from Lowell Tower, then emerged and dragged the rebel away.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Citizens and Students Observe Bicentenary Of Boston Massacre | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

Curtis'speech was preceded by a five-minute dirge sounded in the Lowell bell tower by the Lowell House society of Russian bell ringers.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Citizens and Students Observe Bicentenary Of Boston Massacre | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

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