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...hill where Aztec priests once studied the stars, President Manuel Avila Camacho of Mexico dedicated a great modern observatory. Tonanzintla, near Puebla, 70 miles southeast of Mexico City, was the envy of visiting U.S. astronomers because of its latitude. Harvard's Harlow Shapley explained, "All the Milky Way can be seen-not merely the 60% or less which is satisfactorily explored from most northern observatories...
Under the leadership of Harlow Shapley, Director of the College Observatory, the contingent leaves the Astronomy Department without any of its active professors. Substitutes, among whom is Mrs. Bok, wife of Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy, have been engaged for many of its courses...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been awarded the Pope Pius XI prize for astronomy, totaling 50,000 lire, about $2,500, according to an United Press bulletin from the Vatican City...
Professor Shapley, last night, was completely ignorant of the reason for his citation. "I know nothing about the award, therefore I can make no statement," he said nervously...
...native of Nashville, Missouri, Professor Shapley joined the Harvard faculty in 1921. He holds degrees from the universities of Missouri, Princeton, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Toronto, Oglethorp, and Brown and from 1914 to 1921 was on the staff of the Mt. Wilson Observatory...