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...second of a series of five entertainments at the Harvard Club of Boston Wednesday evenings at 8.30 o'clock will be given this evening at the club by Professor Hatlow Shapley, who will seats on the Origin of the Earth". Mr. Chapley Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy at the University and Director of the College Observatory...
Last winter's season Professor Shapley conducted a series of lectures on popular astronomy and conceptions of the stelar universe at the Lowell Institute in Boston. These lectures attracted a full house of 500 people...
Professor Shapley is noted for his research work. In addition to having perfected methods of measuring star distance photometrically, he is responsible for the expansion and contraction theory of the mass of the variable stars, which explains their changes in luminosity. He came to the College Observatory in 1921 from Mount Wilson, where he had worked since...
December 5.--"The Origin of the Earth." Professor Harlow Shapley...
...will preside and President Lowell will speak. Biology 1, the new course to be offered next year on life and its development, will be explained by the four professors who will conduct it, Professors G. H. Parker '87, R. A. Daly G. '93, W. J. V. Osterhout, and Harlow Shapley. The meeting will probably be short in order to give the men present an opportunity to visit several of the scientific departments of the University before they go to dinner in the Union at 12.30 o'clock...