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Professor de Sumichrast's last lecture on "Paris during the Reign of Terror" was given in the Fogg Lecture Room last evening. The subject was "The Peregrinations of the Guillotine." Professor Sumichrast began by explaining the various ways in which the old monarchical government inflicted the death penalty. The invention of the guillotine, which in some analogous form had already been used in Germany and in Scotland, happened to coincide with the outbreak of the Revolution, and was not a consequence of that movement. But it was certainly singular that the invention should have taken place at that particular time...
During the monarchy there had been only two Parisian prisons, but the new regime turned almost every sort of establishment into prisons, and they were all crowded to the doors. The most famous of the prisons was the Conciergerie, the antechamber of death, which still stands, though it has been greatly altered internally. This, and the Temple, the former headquarters of the Knights Templar, are the most interesting of the many places of confinement used by the Terrorists. The Temple was the prison of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth, Madame Royal, and the Dauphine, and it was thence that...
There will be a meeting of the Senior class at 7 o'clock this evening in Lower Massachusetts, to take action on the death of John Joseph Walsh...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has included in the list of half courses to be given in the second half-year, Classical Philology 39, a course on Cicero's exposition of Greek philosophy, with a systematic account of the development of philosophy from the death of Aristotle to the death of Cicero. The course begins next Monday at 3.30 o'clock in Sever 14. It has been given before, but not as it will be conducted this year. Students intending to take this course should consult Professor C. P. Parker at once concerning the necessary books...
...President calls attention to the fact that the death rate in the University is remarkably low. In the year 1902-1903, there were only three deaths among the 632 persons who were members of Governing Boards and of the University staff, a rate of only 4.7 in 1000. among the 4,261 students in the University last year, excluding members of Radcliffe College and the Summer School, there were 10 deaths, a rate of 2.34 in 1000. In 1900 the death rate among males twenty and thirty years of age in the city of Boston was about 9 per cent...