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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student body, but especially of Westerners and Southernerss. I cannot be brought to believe that those two additional days wrought any harm at all to the conducting of courses, or injured in the least the treasured body of our Harvard traditions. On the other hand, those two additional days mount much to many a Harvard student, and were heartily appreciated. Let the recess then be lengthened, and let the addition, at time come at the end of the recess...
...Harlow Shapley, formerly of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory at Pasadena, California, whose researches on the size and structure of the stellar universe have attracted widespread attention among astronomers, has been appointed Director of the College Observatory, and thus assumes a position which has been vacant since the death of Professor E. C. Pickering...
...Shapley is thirty-five years old. He was born at Nashville, Missouri, studied at the University of Missouri, received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Princeton, where he worked under Professor H. N. Russell, and from 1914 until last spring was attached to the Mount Wilson Observatory. During the past eight months he has been a member of the University staff with the title of Observer...
...Mount Wilson he perfected methods of measuring star distances photometrically, and applied these methods to the problem of the distances and structures of the great star-clusters. His work has given astronomers a new perception of the size of the stellar universe, showing that in volume it is at least a thousand times larger than it was thought to be before the distances to the clusters were measured. Furthermore, Dr. Shapley has discovered that the sun, instead of being at the center of the sidereal universe, as was formerly supposed, is really several hundred quadrillion miles away from...
Professor R. H. Lord '06 will be the principal speaker at the first meeting of St. Paul's Catholic Club at the club's headquarters, 34 Mount Auburn street, at eight o'clock this evening. Father John J. Ryan, pastor of St. Paul's Catholic Church, will also speak, and refreshments will be served. Plans for the season will be discussed. All Catholic students in the University are invited...