Two Meetings Today

A variable star symposium will be held in Building D of the Observatory this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Speakers will include Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory, and Dr. F. L. Whipple, the comet expert of the staff. Also speaking will be Dr. Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Dr. T. E. Sterne, and Miss Henrietta H. Swope.

The New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will meet at 8:15 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. Professor Hubert W. Lamb will speak on "Notes on Accented Ornamentation in Beethoven."