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...Bond Astronomical Club will hold its annual dinner, at which it is expected that an important step in the growth of the Harvard Observatory will be announced. At the dinner, which is scheduled to begin at 7 o'clock, Odin Roberts '86, Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, and Miss Margaret Harwood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, are to be the speakers of the evening...
...first public meeting to be held under the auspices of the newly-founded Harvard Chapter of the Sigma XI Society was held last night in Sanders Theater when Sir James Jeans, the eminent British astronomer and mathematician lectured to a capacity audience on the "Annihilation of Matter." Professor Harlow Shapley of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory introduced the speaker of the evening...
Prior to the award, Dr. Shapley will propound one of his most advanced theories in a lecture to be delivered tonight on the subject: "The Expanding Universe." Other recent honors awarded Dr. Shapley include the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for outstanding scientific achievement...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory, will be awarded an honorary L.L.D. degree by Oglethorpe University at Atlanta, Georgia tomorrow. The degree is being conferred in recognition of Dr. Shapley's achievements in astronomy, in which field he has made several world fomous discoveries...
Professor Shapley received an additional honor at the same time when a cablegram notified him that he had also been elected to the Royal Lombardy Institute of Sciences and Letters of Italy...