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Further progress in the expansion of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory was announced yesterday by Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory and Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...
...observing station, to be the most extensively equipped in the East, at the highest point between Mount Wachusett and the sea, on Oak Ridge, Harvard, Massachusetts, 27 miles northwest of Cambridge. Actual construction will begin early in the spring, according to the announcement made yesterday afternoon by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory...
...offer of the land was made by Mr. and Mrs. Fuller last spring when Dr. Shapley first officially announced the out-of-town site. The land lies on the Fuller country estate in Harvard...
...speaking of the gift of the site, Dr. Shapley said, "The general interest which Mr. and Mrs. Fuller have for long had in astronomy made them aware of the importance of the Oak Ridge site as a location for a big reflecting telescope. Their quick and generous offer to Harvard of their valuable tract has been a great satisfaction to all the members of the Observatory staff who are concerned with the operation of the new reflector...
...Harlow Shapley, Harvard astronomer . . . LL.D...