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...women astronomers were voted titled professorships by the Corporation, it was announced yesterday, thus making them the second and third women to receive Harvard appointments. The two are Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, who has been made William Cranch Bond Astronomer and Curator of Astronomical Photographs, and Dr. Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Phillips Astronomer...
...Cannon, who has been on the research staff of the Observatory since 1897, is famous for her classification of the two hundred and twenty-five thousand spectra described in the Henry Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra, and for her work in the field of variable stars. She has received many honors in this country and abroad...
...have left their mark on U. S. history much more indelibly than President Polk. As Speaker- the title is derived from the ancient custom of the House of Commons which, voteless, sent a member to the King to speak for them-men like Henry Clay, James G. Elaine, Joseph Cannon, Champ Clark and Nicholas Longworth have used their authority so effectively as to give the job a lively tradition of being second in importance only to the Presidency itself. Since the departure to the Senate of John Nance Garner the speakership has suffered a woeful decline in prestige. Old Henry...
...Cannon also pointed out that there was nothing revolutionary in the proposals for governmental aid to medical education and research, since states and cities now operate medical schools and contribute to advance study through hospitals, laboratories, and health services...
...lecturer in Surgery; William Lloyd Aycock, assistant professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene; Walter Bauer, associate professor of Medicine; Kenneth D. Blackfan, Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics; Herrman L. Blumgart '17, associate professor of Medicine; Dean Burwell, research professor of Clinical Medicine; Allen M. Butler, associate in Pedriatrics; Cannon; William B. Castle '17, associate professor of Medicine; Henry A. Christian '03, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic; Stanley Cobb '10, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology; Bronson Crothers '05, assistant professor of Pedriatics; Elliott C. Cutler '09, Moseley Professor of Surgery, James L. Gamble, professor of Pedriatrics; John...