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...this station the new Harvard 60-inch reflector telescope, the largest astronomical instrument in the East, will be the most important part of the equipment; but five or six of the Observatory's other photographic telescopes will also be moved from Cambridge to the country. Four other photographic telescopes and the visual telescopes will be retained and operated at the present Cambridge headquarters on Observatory Hill...
...Harvard Observatory at Cambridge will soon become possessor of the largest telescope in the east, it was announced last night by Dr. Harlow Shapley in a speech before the annual dinner of the Bond Astronomical Club. It will be of the reflector type, similar in size and in the general details of construction to the 60-inch telescope of the Harvard Observatory now being installed at its southern Station in Bioemfontein, South Africa...
Shapley has for a long time gone over the available territory in the neighborhood. It is probable that at the site where the 60-inch reflector will be lo-equipment will be installed. At the present time ten different telescopes are in use at the Cambridge station of the Observatory. For some of these a considerable gain in effectiveness may be obtained through moving to a higher altitude, and to a greater distance from the dust and light of the city...
...Rockefeller Foundation and friends of the department. Accessory equipment will include apparatus for the study of spectra and light variations of the stars, their temperatures, dimensions, and motions. The equipment already in the possession of the plant has been particularly suited to covering fields of large stars; the new reflector will specialize in the closer analysis of individual stars and planets...
...rich Oklahoma City field, now under strict proration. Last week Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. threatened to reopen this wound by seeking an injunction against proration in the field. Often Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair has been accused of leading the price-cutting. Last week his house-organ, the Sinclair Reflector, asked "Who Killed Cock Robin?" and answered that the big oil companies did it by bootlegging oil at cheap prices. "Sinclair did not stoop to subterfuge or practice evasion," said the Reflector...