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...bells had struck midnight when a cheaply made coffin was carried through the deserted streets of the German town of Weimar on May 12, 1805. Its cargo: the rapidly decomposing body of Friedrich Schiller - poet, philosopher, historian, dramatist and rebel, who had died three days earlier. Its destination: the local Jacob's Cemetery, where his corpse was unceremoniously lowered into a common grave with, as Thomas Mann wrote in 1955, "no mild sound of music, no word from the mouth of priest or friend...
...good mayor's ad hoc phrenology correct? Or was Schiller's fertile brain actually housed in another skull dug up almost a century later? Scientists from the Friedrich Schiller Code research project are now determined to find out. They will compare dna taken from the two skulls with dna from the skeleton of Schiller's second son, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm, who was exhumed in Bonn on July 19. "Ultimately, this will show us whether one of the skulls is Schiller's - or whether neither of them is," says Freiburg anthropologist Ursula Wittwer-Backofen, one of the chief Code researchers...
...Manager of SOCH David R. Friedrich says that the College plans on holding many freshman events in Hilles in the hope that they will grow to use it for events and get-togethers from the beginning of their Harvard career...
...Friedrich said that yearly changes in which groups have space in Hilles should be expected...
...Friedrich also said that the appearance of each group’s office was an important “litmus test” judging space usage...