Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Professor Harlow Shapley, of the Harvard Observatory, who recently was awarded the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for great scientific achievement, will preside, and at which Professor G. W. Stewart, national president of the Society of the Sigma Xi, President Lowell, and Dr. K. T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be among the speakers...
...speakers, in addition to the President of the Society, and Presidents Lowell and Compton, will be Professor W. H. Snell of Brown University, Professor J. W. Howe of the Worcester Institute of Technology, and Professor J. S. Nicholas of Yale University...
Dancer Betty Compton (Oh, Kay! and Fifty Million Frenchmen), pretty friend of New York's Mayor Walker; was suddenly and secretly married to one Edward Duryea ("Eddie") Dowling some weeks ago. Last week she returned from the Havana honeymoon estranged from her new husband. They had found each other "incompatible" after two days. She planned a trip to California...
...significant statement recently issued by President Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology it was stated that this institution is faced with the necessity of limiting its student body. This is to be done by increasing the severity of the regulations which determine whether or not a student may remain in the institute and not by more stringent entrance requirements...
...this statement of President Compton has a broader significance than is found in the method to be used in limiting the total student body. It shows how general is the feeling with the public that a college education should be practical and have a very definite relation to the work which the student is planning to do when he graduates, for at this time when so many colleges are finding their enrollments distinctly reduced Technology has reached its greatest size. The cause of this distinctive growth appears to be that the demand for the practical education which this institution gives...