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HARVARD PROFESSORS WILL ATTEND DINNER NEXT FRIDAY

Chafee to Preside While Mather Speaks on Capital Punishment

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Two Harvard professors will take part in the dinner conference of the Massachusetts Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty to be held a week from today at 46 Beacon Street, in Boston.

Zechariah Chafee, professor in the Harvard Law School, will preside at the dinner, which is scheduled for 6.30 o'clock. Following the dinner K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, will speak on the subject, "Does Evolution Justify Capital Punishment," and Father Spence Burton, former chaplain at San Quentin Prison, will discuss the experiences of "A Prison Chaplain in the Death House."

Tickets may be obtained at the office of the Council at 6 Byron Street, Boston. The charge for the dinner is $2.00 and the admission to the speaking at 8 o'clock is $ .50.

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