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...Once more Yale gets the jump on Harvard, this time not in the athletic field, nor because of the action of the authorities in University Hall, but because nature herself is conspiring against us, in making the eclipse January 24 total at Yale and not here," declared Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the University Observatory, who spoke to a crowd of 800 people yesterday afternoon at New Lecture Hall on "The Coming Eclipses of Sun and Moon...
Professor Harlow Shapley of the University Observatory will deliver a lecture on "The Coming Eclipses of the Sun and Moon" this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
This afternoon's lecture will be the first exposition at the University of the eclipse which will come on January 24. Professor Shapley plans to make an intensive study of the future phenomenon when it occurs. He will be assisted in this work by several associates who are already busy making preparations to photograph and make complete records of the eclipse. Professor Shapley plans to journey to an observatory in New York State inasmuch as there will be a total eclipse there, wheress only 99 per cent of the sun's surface will be covered when viewed from Cambridge...
Professor Shapley is a very well known astronomer, and has made a special study of eclipses. He has taken a leading part in the preparations which are being made at the University Observatory for the coming total eclipse of the sun, which occurs on January 24. Although its surface will be only 99 percent covered by the moon at Cambridge, the eclipse will be total in the western part of Massachusetts, and Professor Shapley plans to travel to an observatory there or in eastern New York state. Other members of the Observatory, including assistant Professor Edward S. King will probably...
Professor Shapley and his associates are devoting their particular attention to the problem of the corona, which consists of rays of light appearing around the edge of the moon when it completely covers the sun. What it is made up of is still a mystery to the world and it is hoped that Professor Shapley's observations may shed some light on the subject. His lecture, which is open to the public, is given under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of the Gamma Alpha Scientific Society...