Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teachers are Professors Mather, Shapley, Chafee, Ciardi, Harris, and Schlesinger, Jr. All but Harris appeared on the list of "Reducators" publicly field this week by the Cambrdige City Council...
Signers included Dean Griswold; Earnest A. Hooten, professor of Anthropology; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy; Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor; Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity; Michael Karpovich, professor of History; and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, charged that the law "smacks of the totalitarian methods and is obviously a pre-election gesture by those who still believe that hysterical extremes are vote-getters." He added that "undoubtedly many of the Congressmen were not really in favor but feared to oppose such sedition legislation...
Installation of the University's World War II Memorial plaque (sketch above) will be delayed two or three months, architect Henry R. Shapley '10 disclosed yesterday, because new names have been added to the original list. The plaque was expected to be ready for dedication in the Memorial Chapel for the opening of College, but work on the actual carving of the names of Harvard's dead has not yet begun...
...Shapley said the carvers should be able to begin immediately because the revised plans are finally complete. Work has been held up while the Corporation considered whether or not it would include the names of men who have died since V.J. Day from war injuries. The names of about ten men were finally added, but since they were disposed throughout the plaque according to their different classes, new, blueprints had to be drawn...