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Both Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, were listed as "typical sponsors" in a recent report published by the subcommittee...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, and at least six alumni were bracketed with such names commonly associated with Red front groups as Howard Fast, Dashiell Hammett, and Paul Robeson...
...their "collectivist" views. These include former Communists like Richard Gorham Davis, Daniel J. Boorstin '34, Granville Hicks '23, Helen Deane Markham, Leon J. Kamin '49--no longer associated with the University--and Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, are classified as "fellow travelers" by Root...
...program thus allows Louis Hartz, for example, to teach "Democratic Theory and Its Critics"--which includes at least the departments of History and Government, or Harlow Shapley to teach "Cosmography" for which the only prerequisite is "persistent curiosity." Indeed, according to Hartz, the courses should not fit into any pattern, nor focus on any goal. Instead, "they should survive on their individual merits...
...minute program is part of the "Science in Action" series that is devoted to significant advances in science. Shapley has been a leader in promoting the new field of Cosmography, and has contributed numerous papers on the subject...