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The best report of Webster's trial is that edited by Bemis. The following tracts1 in the British Museum have been consulted by the writer: "Appendix to the Webster Trial," Boston, 1850: "Thoughts on the Conviction of Webster"; "The Boston Tragedy," by W. E. Bigelow.
It is not often that the gaunt spectre of murder invades the cloistered3 calm of academic life. Yet such a strange and unwonted tragedy befell Harvard University in the year 1849, when John W. Webster, Professor of Chemistry, took the life of Dr. George Parkman, a distinguished4 citizen of Boston. The scene of the crime, the old Medical School, now a Dental Hospital, is still standing5, or was when the present writer visited Boston in 1907. It is a large and rather dreary6 red-brick, three-storied building, situated7 in the lower part of the city, flanked on its west side by the mud flats leading down to the Charles River. The first floor consists of two large rooms, separated from each other by the main entrance hall, which is approached by a flight of steps leading up from the street level. Of these two rooms, the left, as you face the building, is fitted up as a lecture-room. In the year 1849 it was the lecture-room of Professor Webster. Behind the lecture-room is a laboratory, known as the upper laboratory, communicating by a private staircase with the lower laboratory, which occupies the left wing of the ground floor. A small passage, entered by a door on the left-hand side of the front of the building, separated this lower laboratory from the dissecting8-room, an out-house built on to the west wall of the college, but now demolished9. From this description it will be seen that any person, provided with the necessary keys, could enter the college by the side-door near the dissecting room on the ground floor, and pass up through the lower and upper laboratory into Professor Webster's lecture-room without entering any other part of the building. The Professor of Chemistry, by locking the doors of his lecture-rooms and the lower laboratory, could, if he wished, make himself
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深思,沉思,冥想( meditate的过去式和过去分词 ); 内心策划,考虑 | |
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seizure
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innocence
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adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的 | |
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injustice
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adj. 预期的 动词contemplate的过去分词形式 | |
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consolation
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contrition
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gratitude
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adj.感激,感谢 | |
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fortitude
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accusation
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n.控告,指责,谴责 | |
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provocation
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n.激怒,刺激,挑拨,挑衅的事物,激怒的原因 | |
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