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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Sumichrast lectured last evening in the Fogg Lecture Room on "The Seats of the Government during the French Revolution." He stated that the object of his series of lectures was to give a view of the Reign of Terror in Paris not usually taken by historians, and to reconstruct the setting of the scenes of that terrible period. Professor Sumichrast described the places where the Assemblies and the Convention held their sittings--the Archiepiscopal palace, the old Riding School and the Tuileries--telling of the stirring events which took place in each: he also explained the workings and significance...
...Francis Bullard '86 of Boston has again lent to the Fogg Museum his beautiful watercolor drawing of Tintagell Castle by Turner. It is now on view in the upper gallery, together with the other Turner drawings which are as follows: "Devonport," "The Simplon," "Mansion with Shaded Grounds," an "Early Drawing," and a "Sketch...
...Department of Education in a municipality is of more importance than all the other departments put together, not from the point of view of amount of expenditures, to be sure, but because the quality of the population in the ensuing generations is determined most of all by the work and efficiency of this department...
During the past year the Faculty devoted much of its time to the discussion of the tabular view, but there was such division of opinion that the discussion led to no action toward improvement of the schedule of lecture hours. The chief evil of the present system is an injurious interference with the liberty of choice of the individual student among the courses nominally open to him, on account of congestion of most of the lectures within a small range of hours. The attempt to use the hour from 7.45 to 8.45 has failed; and a motion to give each...
...Scott '04, on forcing plants with alkaloids. Dr. Johansen, of Copenhagen, discovered that by treating certain dormant shrubs, or plants out of season, with ether, and then forcing them in a hot house, they would flower from eighteen to twenty days before the usual time. With this end in view Mr. Scott has performed a series of experiments with other alkaloids on different plants, with general success. He found that by treating the cotton plant with ether, it germinated before the control, or normal condition of the plant, and finally blossomed two weeks ahead of the usual time...