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...Richard Prager, world famous German cataloguer of variable stars, arrived here yesterday morning aboard the S. S. Samaria to take his position in the research department of the Observatory, where he will work with Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory...
According to an announcement of Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, last night, Dr. Richard Prager, lately of the University of Berlin and one of the leading European astronomers, will arrive in Boston tomorrow on the Samaria to join the research staff of the Harvard College Observatory. Research work on variable stars will keep him at Harvard for at least two years...
...Prager, who was stationed until recently at the Berlin-Babelsberg Observatory, is an outstanding bibliographer in the large field of variable stars and was responsible for many years for naming variable stars and for recording them in the annual catalogue, Dr. Shapley said...
Besides MacLeish on the committee of sponsors are Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy; Howard Baker, instructor in English; Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of Psychology; Walter H. Piston '94, associate professor of Music; William Y. Elliott, Professor of Government; David Worcester, '27, instructor in English; David T. W. McCord '21, Executive Sec- retary of the Harvard Fund; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Professor of English; James R. Brewster '25, Director of the Film Service; Theodore Spencer, assistant professor of English; Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking; Ernest J. Simmons, assistant professor of English...
Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, will preside at the morning session. Dr. Donald H. Mensal will speak on "Problems of the Solar Atmosphere...