Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once more Yale gets the jump on Harvard, this time not in the athletic field, nor because of the action of the authorities in University Hall, but because nature herself is conspiring against us, in making the eclipse January 24 total at Yale and not here," declared Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the University Observatory, who spoke to a crowd of 800 people yesterday afternoon at New Lecture Hall on "The Coming Eclipses of Sun and Moon...
...will be the first total eclipse of the sun over Boston since 1806," continued Dr. Shapley, "and if the day is clear, it will be witnessed by ten million people, more than have ever before seen a total eclipse of the sun. Strangely enough, the eclipse will be total in the north part of New York City but not in the south, and in southern Providence, but not in the northern part of the city, where the Brown University observatory is located. Duluth, Buffalo, Rochester, Hartford, New Haven, New London and Nantucket will be among the places lying within...
...Shapley also mentioned the fact that Harvard University sponsored the first eclipse expedition ever sent out from an American institution, which left Boston in 1780. After special arrangements with the British forces who then held the Maine coast, the astronomical party was allowed to land at Penobscot Bay, though it was forbidden to communicate with the inhabitants. The observations were successful and instructive, being of great value to mariners as well as astronomers, for at that time the moon's position was not so accurately known...
...Shapley advised amateurs, who wish to observe the eclipse properly, to provide themselves with smoked glasses and an ordinary pair of field glasses. "Among the interesting things for which to watch," he continued, "are the directions shadow bands on the ground take...
This afternoon's lecture will be the first exposition at the University of the eclipse which will come on January 24. Professor Shapley plans to make an intensive study of the future phenomenon when it occurs. He will be assisted in this work by several associates who are already busy making preparations to photograph and make complete records of the eclipse. Professor Shapley plans to journey to an observatory in New York State inasmuch as there will be a total eclipse there, wheress only 99 per cent of the sun's surface will be covered when viewed from Cambridge...