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Appointed. Professor John Shapley, head of the Department of Art of New York University; to be professor and chairman of the Department of Art of the University of Chicago...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, was one of the two new members elected for three years to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences at the closing session Wednesday of the annual meeting at Washington...
...channel through which they may reach the outside world as news. Yet those "happenings which affect the outside world", those "discoveries of Harvard scientiests" which are of interest to outsiders have been the subject of numbers of releases by this office to the public, as for instance Professor Shapley's announcement of the discovery of the center of the universe, or the acquisition of the Nelson letters by Widener Library. One hundred and twenty-one releases of Harvard news have been given to the press since October...
Professor Shapley, the Director of the Harvard Observatory, who has long University Theatre--"The Awakening" recognized the importance of the variable stars in the study of cosmogony, has laid out an ambitious program for their discovery and investigation. For this purpose, the Milky Way is divided into 240 fields, which are now being examined by a corps of observers, available through an appropriation from the Milton fund...
...determination by Miss Swope of the brightness and the period of variation of eighty-five of the variables discovered by her has enabled Dr. Shapley to locate more accurately the center or nucleus of our Galactic universe, 50,000 light years away. This center of our universe is in the Sagittarius-Scorpio region, the brightest part of the Milky Way, which is visible here in the summer sky but too low in the south to be seen in all its glory. In Arequipa, Peru, the region is overhead and is truly a remarkable sight in that transparent atmosphere...