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Pending reform of the Student Council Constitution was aided in part by the needlings of the Liberal Union. It was also quick to rally the student body to the support of Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, during his stormy October disagreement with Representative John Rankin of the House Committee on Un-American Activities...
...Civilization needs friends," Harvard's busy Astronomer-Harlow Shapley reported to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see SCIENCE). He felt the lack. "Nobody cares aggressively about its continuation," he complained. Dr. Shapley, an astronomer who worries about almost everything under the stars, plumped for a "positive friendship for civilization, expeditiously organized and steadily maintained. . . . Time is short," he warned. The five great threats as he saw them in climactic order: pandemic plague, world warfare with superweapons; boredom; sexually debilitating dope; and "the genius-maniac." The simple way to dispose of the last: ". . . Kill off, while young...
United behind the cause of Indian freedom regardless of individual political and religious beliefs, the delegates to this second annual convention of the Hindusthan Students' Association of America will hear a group of Indian and American speakers, including guest of honor Harlow Shapley, Director of the College Observatory, discuss India's educational, industrial, and commercial difficulties...
Said Miss Sue Shapley--"is the name, and don't you think I am?" Vassar '47, "Tell him to get me something with an 'H' inscribed on it, so I can remember which sweetheart it's from--preferably a letter sweater; filled, that...
Citing Committee Chairman John Rankin's alleged "star chamber" methods in his November examination of Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, Miss Slade urged students to disseminate information about the Committee's activities to friends and parents and to make their own views known to members of Congress...