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...share toward unemployment relief in Cambridge, the Harvard Observatory on Garden Street will hold an "Astronomical Fair" on Thursday, March 30, Friday, March 31, and Saturday, April 1. The entire staff will be on hand to assure the patrons an evening of instruction as well as pleasure, Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory, announced last night...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory, announced last night that B. J. Bok, Wilson Teaching Fellow, and tutor in the division of Physical Sciences, had been awarded the Roberts Prize for research concerning the absorbtion of matter in interstellar space...
...Quest of Comets," Dr. F. L. Whipple: "Unravelling Stellar Secrets". Dr. A. J. Cannon: "The Insides of Stars". Dr. Payne: "The Worlds of Gas," Dr. R. J. Hok. Wilson Teaching Fellow: "The Chemistry of Interstellar Space." V. B. Andrews '2b instructor in Astronomy: and "The Chemistry of Evolution." Harlew Shapley. Patne Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory. The last time that such a series of talks was given over the air was in 1927 when the College took open itself the responsibility to carry out a program without the sponsorship of an outside society. The lectures...
...meeting of the Society of Arts and Sciences in New York last night Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, was awarded the Society's gold medal for distinction in science. After the dinner Shapley made an acceptance speech in which he dealt with some of the many questions in cosmogony that are now puzzling scientists...
...talk Shapley pointed out that three things among the many that confuse astronomers are (1) The origin, nature, and persistence of Cosmic meteors, appearing in the earth's atmosphere, coming from interstellar space and wholly independent of the solar system; (2) The existence of vagabond stars, intergalactic tramps, at the borders of the galaxy; and (3) The groupings and streams of the galaxies throughout the metagalactic structure, where we should expect uniform individual distribution...