ABSTRACT
In May 1921, William A. Stuart, who had new succeeded Elmer Davis as secretary of the Brotherhood of Rhodes Scholars of 1910, wrote his former classmates asking them to update their individual “achievements, difficulties, and failures” from their period. His shortcomings with the pen aside, Edwin Hubble was more than toying with the structure of the universe. Hubble spent another year photographing with the 60- and 100-inch reflectors before he felt confident enough to submit his findings to a wider audience. While Hubble continued to refine his classification scheme, Shapley both flourished and fretted at Harvard. Hubble, who had seen little of Hale since coming to Mount Wilson, probably viewed the change in leadership as part of the natural order of things, perhaps even welcoming it. Hubble was left with the anomalous—nebulae that did not fall readily into any of the previous categories.
