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Playing an important role in the war effort, the Harvard Astronomical Observatory is undertaking 11 distinct types of military research which occupy the full time of about 25 members of the observatory's scientific staff, Harlow Shapley, director, reported to President Conant...
Pointing out that some of the assignments are too confidential to be commented upon, Shapley added that the nature of others are obvious when it is recalled that sailors steer by the stars and that the observatory has had to build and use many kinds of lenses and mirrors and practice various photographic techniques in the normal course of astronomical research...
...work has taken its toll of astronomors. Shapley stated that four members of his staff, assigned to observing work at Bloemfontein, are in the South African Army. One was in Tobruk when the Axis captured the town and is believed to be a prisoner...
...Shapley cited the observatory's participation in the Inter-American Astrophysical Congres in Mexico as the most interesting of the year's activities. On that occasion the new Astrophysical Observatory in the State of Puebla in Mexico was dedicated. Harvard had lent much of the equipment and Dr. George Dimitroff remained in Mexico for some weeks to assist in the instrallation of some of the equipment...
...special writer for PM and a journalistic progressive, will speak to the Harvard Liberal Union on. "Who Is the Enemy" in the Lowell House Common Room at 7:30 o'clock tonight in a meeting which will be broadcast by the Crimson Network, according to Union representative, Lloyd S. Shapley...