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Long time the shapley foe he sought...
...Harlow Shapley, Director of the Observatory, received an award to enable him to continue his study of the stars and to purchase instruments for the University observatories at Cambridge and at Arequipa, Peru...
After the dinner short addresses were given by Mr. George Russell Agassiz '84, who presided, Professor W. P. Gerrish, Professor Harlow Shapley, Professor Frederick Slocum of Wesleyan University, and Professor Bailey...
Professor Shapley stated that he had received reports from two of the three other expeditions sent out by the observatory. He said, "Mr. Campbell, who headed the expedition to New London, reports that all the resources of Connecticut College were put at his disposal. There were 600 Wellesley girls also on the campus, but their proximity apparently did not interfere seriously with his solar observations...
Professor Shapley concluded by saying, "Of course we cannot tell for several weeks just what scientific discoveries will have been added to our knowledge of the sun and its eclipses. We hope, however, that our special study of the corona, conducted under very favorable conditions, will yield interesting results...