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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...
...various places where the guillotine was erected were then described. The scaffold was first set up in the Place de Greve, whence it was transported to the Place de la Revolution, then to the Place du Carrousel, and again back to the Place de la Revolution. Later, in deference to the objections raised by the business men on the streets leading to the spot, it was moved to the east end of the city...
...Lyman Abbott, D.D., h.'90, will give an address this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union on "Studying Men." Dr. Abbott will treat the subject in relation to success in life, showing that men besides studying various themes should study human nature as well. He will then go on to explain just what this study means...
...will give the fourth and last of his series of lectures on "Paris during the Reign of Terror," this evening at 8 o'clock, in the Fogg Lecture Room. The subject will be "The Peregrinations of the Guillotine." The lecturer will speak of the origin of the guillotine, the various sites upon which it was erected, the method of execution, and the sites of the various burial grounds which were set apart for the victims...
...last lecture of the series will be given next Wednesday, and will treat of the Guillotine and the various places in Paris where it was set up during the Reign of Terror...