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...should also attract a host of auditors on opening day, even from among those who have long transcended the elementary stuff. Clambering up the Gropius-bleachers in Burr A gives one a chance to view both Sputnik-spotting Dr. Hynek, and cigarette-dangling Payne-Gaposchkin, Harvard's first woman professor, world authority on variable stars, and beloved eccentric of the first order...
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, professor of Astronomy, will be the first woman to occupy an open endowed chair at the University. Other appointments announced yesterday include two new members of the Board of Preachers to replace Frederick May Eliot, deceased, and Sidney Lovett, who resigned recently...
...only other woman with an endowed chair at Harvard is Cora Du Bois, the Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Anthropology. This professorship, however, is limited to women. Mrs. Payne Gaposchkin will be Phillips Professor of Astronomy, a professorship which honors Phillips as "the first major benefactor of astronomy at Harvard...
Educators are "passing the buck" by expecting the Natural Sciences program to fill the gaps of a student's inadequate scientific preparation, asserted Cecelia H. Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Astronmer and chairman of the Department. Substantial training in mathematics and physics for all students must begin in the secondary schools, she said...
Both Hynek and Mrs. Gaposchkin would require students, who are intellectually capable, to complete three years of algebra, as well as trigonometry and geometry. Furthermore, they would require a year of physics, which Hynek labelled as "basic to the understanding of all the sciences...