When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.

Boston 1926–27 1938 1945). Soc.  
Henry Norris Russell (1937).

Henry Norris Russell (October 25 1877 – February 18 1957) was an American astronomer who along with Ejnar Hertzsprung developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910).