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...time conversational genius flags, the weather is unquestionably the world's most honored subject. Yet with all their practice, languid prognosticators can seldom speak about the temperature tomorrow with so much authority as Harlow Shapley, seven other Harvard faculty members, and distinguished outside contributors can discuss the climate a million years ago--and a million years hence...
Menzel succeeds Harlow Shapley, who retired in the summer of 1952. He has served as acting director of the Observatory since September...
Cosmography, which Webster blithely defines as "a description of the world or the Universe," will be discussed by astronomer Harlow Shapley in Nat. Sci. 115. From the catalog the course sounds as though it is intended only for those who can manipulate Einstein's formulas with aplomb, but Professor Shapley claims "the only prerequisite is a persistent curiosity." It all happens in Room 18 of the geographical Institute...
...pity that the governing body of Harvard does not exhibit the same good sense in dealing with a pair of credulous donkeys such as Shapley and Furry. The latter pair prove that most professors, when not actually in the class room, should be kept hung on a hook in a closet. Russell M. Cook...
Contacted yesterday, Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Practical Astronomy, told the CRIMSON he had not been subpoenaed by the committee...