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Professor Harlow Shapley of the department of Astronomy will give the first of his series of eight lectures on modern astronomy this evening at 8 o'clock, at Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston. The subject of this first lecture will be "The Problems of Modern Astronomy." The lectures, to be given Tuesday and Friday evenings in the Lowell Institute, are free and are open to the public, but by ticket only. Those who have not already applied for tickets may obtain them at the Hall immediately before the lecture this evening...
Professor Shapley is to a great extent responsible for the modern conception of the size of the galactic system which he has estimated to have a diameter of 250.000 light years...
...lectures in the Lowell Institute this year include five Harvard men: Professor Harlow Shapley; Dr. George La Piana; Dr. W. J. V. Osterhout; Dr. A. H. Rice '98 and Professor W. W. Fenn '84. The lectures by the first three speakers will be given before the Christmas holidays. The four first mentioned will all lecture in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston. Tickets for these lectures can be had by sending to the Curator, Lowell Institute, 491 Boylston street, Boston, a stamped, addressed envelope for each ticket desired...
Eight lectures by Professor Shapley. 1. The Problems of Modern Astronomy. 2. Space, Time and Starlight. 3. Stars and Atoms. 4. Stellar Variation and Evolution. 5. Measuring the Milky Way. 6. Nebulae and Island Universes. 7. Origin of the Earth. 8. Life and the Physical Universe. Tuesdays and Fridays at 8.00 P. M., beginning Tuesday, October...
Beginning October 24, Professor Harlow Shapley of the University Observatory will give a series of eight special lectures in the Lowell Institute on modern developments in Astronomy. Tickets for these lectures may be obtained free of charge by sending to the Curator, Lowell Institute, 491 Boylston street, Boston, a self-addressed, stamped envelope for each ticket desired...