Word: shapleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their "collectivist" views. These include former Communists like Richard Gorham Davis, Daniel J. Boorstin '34, Granville Hicks '23, Helen Deane Markham, Leon J. Kamin '49--no longer associated with the University--and Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, are classified as "fellow travelers" by Root...
...program thus allows Louis Hartz, for example, to teach "Democratic Theory and Its Critics"--which includes at least the departments of History and Government, or Harlow Shapley to teach "Cosmography" for which the only prerequisite is "persistent curiosity." Indeed, according to Hartz, the courses should not fit into any pattern, nor focus on any goal. Instead, "they should survive on their individual merits...
...having some difficulty in deciding exactly what to present," said Harlow Shapley, Payne Professor of Practical Astronomy. Shapley has consented to telecast a condensed version of his popular Cosmography course at the request of the California Academy of Science. His class "attempts to orient man in a complex Universe...
...minute program is part of the "Science in Action" series that is devoted to significant advances in science. Shapley has been a leader in promoting the new field of Cosmography, and has contributed numerous papers on the subject...
Menzel, also a professor of Astrophysics and Associate Director for Solar Research, succeeded Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, as head of the Observatory in 1952; he is the author of "Flying Sancers...