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Professor and Mrs. Harlow Shapley, Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Worcester, and Captain and Mrs. C. A. Wright...
...Shapley is Godfather...
...godfather of this celestial child of the Harvard line is Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, who has recently named 14 small planets or asteroids photographically discovered by the late Reverend J. H. Metcalf. To one of these planetoids, which labored under the title of 1912 PZ, Professor Shapley gave the name of the University...
Other names of the group celebrate famous wordly municipalities. Botolphia and Cantabria are the representatives in the court of the sky of Boston and Cambridge, and Portlandia and Winchester are the heavenly types of their respective boroughs. To two other asteroids Professor Shapley assigned the names Arequipa and Mandeville, commemorating the branches of the College Observatory. A personal touch is given to the general christening by the naming of three tiny bodies after Dr. Metcalf, Professor G. E. Bond, the first director of the Observatory, and the late Professor E. C. Pickering, director for 40 years...
...Navy played a series of pre-season games with Purdue, Big Ten Conference representative, and had a little the better of the scores. The Annapolis backfield, with the veteran Shapley as its keystone, is said to be strong, and capable of making considerable trouble for any opposing line. Just how true this statement and others, conflicting and vague, as to the real worth of this year's Nassau eleven, will be answered tomorrow. Meanwhile, it would be folly to attempt more than the merest guess at the result...