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Bearing an honorary degree presented by Viceroy Archibald Wavell and praising the interest in scientific matters shown by men and women of India, Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, returned to Cambridge Thursday morning from a month-long tour of Indian universities and observatories...
Professor Woodworth's talks will follow after the last lecture on "The Unsolved Problems of Astronomy," a series organized by Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory. Applications for tickets to the Lowell Institute Lectures is made by mail to the Curator at the Boston Public Library two days before the beginning of each course...
Pending reform of the Student Council Constitution was aided in part by the needlings of the Liberal Union. It was also quick to rally the student body to the support of Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, during his stormy October disagreement with Representative John Rankin of the House Committee on Un-American Activities...
...RALPH HARLOW...
...Civilization needs friends," Harvard's busy Astronomer-Harlow Shapley reported to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see SCIENCE). He felt the lack. "Nobody cares aggressively about its continuation," he complained. Dr. Shapley, an astronomer who worries about almost everything under the stars, plumped for a "positive friendship for civilization, expeditiously organized and steadily maintained. . . . Time is short," he warned. The five great threats as he saw them in climactic order: pandemic plague, world warfare with superweapons; boredom; sexually debilitating dope; and "the genius-maniac." The simple way to dispose of the last: ". . . Kill off, while young...