RIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Astronomer Gives Ray of Hope Civilization On Rise
Dr. Harlow Shapley, Harvard University astronomer, told a large raser theater audience last night hat the world's future was not entirely black.
"In central Europe there are some 10, 30—maybe 50 million people," Shapley said, "who believe that civilization is on the rise." Shapley said persons outside of Europe believed civilization was back-tracking, heading again forarker ages. He maintained there was a defense for the universe found in the study of astronomy.
The lecturer said he was quite eager to speak at the University on his tour of 13 universities—first, because he spent his college days at the University of Missouri, and secondly, because western Kansas is one of the most lucrative places to find meteorites.
During the speech, Shapley used slide photographs made at Harvard observatory. The first picture showed 13 individuals of 13 nationalities—Dutch, Japanese, Mexican, Russian, Belgian, Turkish, Canadian, Scotch, Czechoslovakian, Bulgarian, and Italian—all of which are doing specialized work in the various fields of astronomy at Harvard.
The astronomer told of how 100 years ago John Quincy Adams, attempted to get an observatory at Harvard and finally succeeded. The University now has one in Massachusetts, one in Colorado, and one in the Union of South Africa.
Shapley compared the present system or galaxy in which we exist to a common pocket watch. The milky way is the center of this galaxy, and the earth is two million light years away from this clustering of stars. This places it at the approximate position of the second hand of the watch. Shapley said a fried egg was perhaps a better comparison because it bulges in the center as does a galaxy.
Shapley talked about the composition of meteorites, told of experiences at the South African observatory, and explained in part the measuring stick of external galaxies. Moving pictures of the hydrogen gas storms on the sun and the corona surrounding it also were shown.
The astronomer showed his audience a photographic plate displaying 4,000 such galaxies with billions of stars in each. There is much irregularity in distribution of the galaxies.
British Capture Italian Benghazi
By HARISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
British army of the Nile, supported by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, captured Benghazi, capital of Cyrenaica today, stretching to 500 miles across the Egyptian and Libyan deserts what began as a simple British raid out of Marsa Matruh on Dec.9.
Italy Concedes Loss
British believed the fall of Benghazi must deal a tremendous blow to Italian morale and there was rejoicing in London and Cairo that italy's hopes to drive to Alexandria and the Suez canal had been definitely smashed.
The Italian high command in Rome virtually conceded the loss of Benghazi by asserting in its communion that "a violent battle" was raging south of Benghazi between Italian and British troops.
The Italians admitted also that fighting raged at Keren, only 35 miles from the Eritrean capital of Asmara. They said that Italians of the southern Ethiopian front had repulsed British attacks and that in Italo-Greek fighting in Albania "there was nothing worthy of mention."
Reading Course Begins Monday In Fraser Hall
Resent Lease-Lend Bill
In Rome hundreds of troops, including crack units of the beplumed Bersaglieri, carrying full war kits and served from mobile field kitchens, were called out to reinforce the normal Carabinieri Guard at the United States embassy and consulate general as university students staged patriotic parades in the streets protesting the British aid bill now being debated by Congress in Washington.
Schedule of the hours of the reading laboratory course has been announced by Bert Nash, professor of education. Monday and Wednesday classes will be held at 9:30, 11:30, 2:30, and 3:30. Tuesday and Thursday classes will be held at 10:30, 11:30, and 2:30.
Assignments are ready and may be secured in room 18 in Fraser hall.
BEAT NEBRASKA!
Spooner Displays Prize Water Color
An exhibit of 21 pictures by William J. Dickerson, director of the Wichita Art association, is now on display in Spooner-Thayer museum. The exhibit includes water colors, pastel drawings, and lithographs.
Among the water colors is a picture entitled, "View of the Farm" which won first prize at the Midwest Art show in Kansas City last year. The display will be shown during the remainder of the month and is open to the public.
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New Students Take Tests Today
New Baseball Coach
Between fifty and 100 new students were expected to take the psychological examination at 2:30 this afternoon in Fraser theater.
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The small number of students taking this examination is not a surprise to University officials, however, for there has been a steady decline in number for the last eight years. This is not because of a decrease in second semester enrollment so much as because of more frequent semi-annual promotions in public schools, according to A.H. Turney, professor of education.
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Gift From Zog
Grun says Americans also have a taste for precious items. He was commissioned to make a brooch containing a kunzite stone for $3,000. This is a violet-tinted gem mined in California, and Grun says he cannot understand why American jewelers do not use it more often, and why they ignore the beautiful semi-precious stones found in Montana and in other states. He recently finished a ring which carried a gem cut like a globe. The globe, when pushed aside, disclosed a watch. It returned to position automatically.
One of Grun's most unusual assignments came from King Zog, who wanted a pair of diamond cuff links. When Grun presented the gems the king asked:
"How do you like them?"
For Mrs. Otto Preminger, wife of the director and actor, he made golden earrings containing perfume.
"I think they're nice," the jeweler replied modestly.
"But you made them." prodded the king. "Don't you think they're terrific?"
"Well, I do think they're as nice as any I've seen."
In Europe he had offices in several cities but here he does all his work in a littered cubby in a sky-scraper aptly called the Celly Building.
"Good!" chorted the king. "They are a present for you."
Grun's wife is Willi Weil, a film writer.
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