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Budenz roared on for seventy-five minutes, mentioning scores of Protestants and Jews, inferring that these people were Communist conspirators. This technique of allegation instead of accusation reached a peak when Budenz lambasted Harvard. Apparently Harvard Professors Harlow Shapley and Kirtley Mather had been mentioned in some obscure Communist journal. Budenz claimed that this could not have been done without the "silent consent" of these...
...Communist Louis Budenz attacked the University last night in Dorchester as being a "red nest." Budenz, now a fierce anti-Communist, branded John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Astronomy, as "Reds," before a large crowd. After his speech, Mayor Hynes presented him with the key to Boston, and called him a "leader in the American way of life...
...meeting of the National Academy of Sciences recently, Dr. Harlow Shapley, professor of Practical Astronomy, reported the discovery of a new window in the Milky Way. The window is slightly obscured by dust clouds Shapley reported, through which one can "see" 100 new galaxies...
...clues came from observing variable stars. Photographs showing the window were taken at the South African Harvard station and analyzed and studied at the Harvard Observatory. From this discovery, Shapley stated that more can be determined about the position of the sun and the earth in relation to the Gigantic Pinwheel...
...Shapley's future plans include a new General Education half-course on Cosmograph which he will teach this spring. The course, which will be open to juniors and senors only, will be a survey of cosmic physics and will examine what is presently known about the origins and probable destinies of stars, planets, and atoms...