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Last week Otto Struve had a triumphant day. On a sugarloaf-shaped mountain in southwestern Texas, Astronomer Struve. already director of the University of Chicago's famed Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, took on an additional job: he officially accepted the directorship of the University of Texas' new McDonald Observatory, which houses the second largest operating telescope in the world. Its mirror is 82 inches across, just under seven feet...
...pined for a big reflector. One day he walked into the office of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, told him that the University of Texas had received a bequest of $800,000 for an astronomical observatory. The money had been left by William J. McDonald, a Texas farmer who acquired an interest in science during his youth, an interest he never lost though he became a millionaire banker...
...space may possess outlying sparsely populated star "haloes" extending the system for beyond the size astronomers have generally assigned to them were reported by Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory speaking before a symposium of distinguished astronomers at the dedication of the McDonald Observatory's new 82-inch reflector yesterday...
Professor Shapley spoke yesterday morning before a symposiumn of twenty leading astronomers, assembled at the dedication ceremonies of the new 82-inch reflector of the McDonald Observatory. Professor Shapley's paper dealt with the use of variable stars in studying structure and dimensions of stellar systems...
...Littauer Center Auditorium at 8:00 o'clock, Yale will have the affirmative on the question: "Resolved, That the United States should orient its foreign policy in vigorous opposition to the Fascist Powers", while Donald McDonald '39, Stanley, O. Beren '41, and Jack S. Orloff '41 will support the Crimson in the negative. Meanwhile in New Jersey another Harvard delegation of Lawrence F. Ebb '39, Phil C. Neal '40, and Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, will uphold the affirmative of the same question against Princeton...