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When the public visits the Observatory this year during the annual series of "Open Nights," it will be able to peer at the heavens through a telescope with a nine inch aperture recently given by Dr. James R. Jewett, professor of Arabic, emeritus.
Over 1,500 people learned something of the secrets of astronomy last year during the open nights. The series begins again this year on Wednesday with a lecture on "Colossal Stars," and on November 10 the public will have a chance to hear about the much-publicized 200-inch telescope scheduled to begin operation soon on the West Coast.
The telescope which Dr. Jewett recently donated to the Harvard Observatory in not his first gift. Last year he donated a reflector telescope, and in previous years has made other valuable gifts.
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