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...Living Room of the Union last night. Samuel Hill '79, as whose guests the two wrestlers have come to this country, gave a short history of the art in introducing them. He said in part: Jiudo first became known in Japan in the sixteenth century, and its origin is traced to a learned physician named Akiyama, who at that time lived in Nagasaki. While studying in China he acquired some knowledge of an athletic system known as Hakuda, then much practiced by the Chinese. He learned three different methods of Hakuda as well as twenty-eight ways of recovering...
...Beaulieu gave his first lecture in Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon, on "Les Philosophes du XVIIIeme Siecle at la Revolution." He explained the reasons for the struggle in France, and in nearly all continental Europe, between democracy and Christianity. In France, democracy came from the French Revolution, which had its origin in the philosophy of the eighteenth century. The disciples of the philosophers and the leaders of the French Revolution, or their successors, had a distrust for Christianity and considered the Christian churches, and the Catholic church in particular, as obstacles to the new ideas and a political invention to keep...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. The Origin of the Hypophysis in Amia calva. Mr. S. O. Mast. Short Papers. Room 1, fourth floor, Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Professor Sumichrast 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...
...final lecture of the series, on "The Guillotine," will describe 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 condemned...