Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first questions on the CRIMSON's poll dealt with the control of leftist sympathies at Harvard. This particularly concerned the legislature at the time of the Sullivan Bill hearing because Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, was simultaneously acting as chairman of the allegedly Russian inspired Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace and Daniel Boone Schirmer, a confessed Communist testifying against the bill, turned out to be a Harvard graduate...
Clark said that the University would not consider disciplining Shapley and Ciardi for their political actions. He said this would be an abrogation of Harvard's "basic tradition of freedom," and that the University could not be induced to depart from this tradition "by any fear that gifts will be withheld...
...alumnus was Frank B. Ober, former chairman of the Maryland Commission on Subversive Activities, which proposed Maryland's anti-"subversive" legislation. Ober complained that two Harvard faculty members--Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, and John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition--were "giving aid and comfort to Communism...
...Shapley had headed the World Peace Conference in New York and Ciardi had participated in Progressive Party opposition to the Maryland legislation...
...Harlow Shapley, Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, and L. Don Leet '29, Professor of Geology and head of the station, conducted the group through the station...