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...response to growing interest in the symposium on "Energy" to be held under the auspices of the Gamma Alpha fraternity, the event will be held in the New Lecture Hall, contrary to the statement in the CRIMSON yesterday that it would take place in the Biological institute. Professor Shapley will preside. The meeting will not be in the nature of a debate, but will illustrate the point of view of the three professors who have been invited to take part...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, will deliver the principal address at the National convention of the Society of Sigma Xi, national honorary society for scientific research, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Wednesday, December 28. The Harvard chapter will send a large delegation to the convention...
...title of Shapley's lecture will be "Fact and Fancy in Cosmogony," and will deal with new theories of astronomical and physical investigation, with particular attention to relativity. Preceding the meeting of Sigma Xi, which is the scientific counterpart of Phi Beta Kappa, the America Association for the Advancement of Science will meet on December 27, at Atlantic City. K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, is secretary of this group. The session will be featured by a symposium on the late Pleistocene and recent changes of level along the North Atlantic Coast...
Professor Shapley summarized in his speech the results of observations made during the last several years by the Harvard Observatory, in an attempt to determine accurately the size, extent, and structure of the universe. Information thus far obtained, encourages the belief that such data will eventually be fully obtained, Shapley believes...
...meeting which Professor Shapley addressed was composed of eminent scientists from colleges in all parts of the country. The conference of the Academy will last three days, with further sessions to be devoted to physics, chemistry, and biology...