Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd... .Sc.D. President Charles Franklin Kettering of General Motors Research Corp..Sc.D. President Karl Taylor Compton...
President Karl Taylor Compton of M. I. T., onetime chairman of the physics department Sc.D...
Karl Taylor Compton: A professor of physics, renowned for his contributions to its latest mysteries, the new President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Karl Taylor Compton, retired chairman of Princeton's Physics Department, was inducted as the eleventh president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By his side stood Samuel Wesley Stratton, who turned over the presidency to become chairman of the Executive Board and Corporation. Excerpt from President Compton's inaugural: "There is a very real danger, for industry is competing with universities for the best men, often taking them and then perhaps later finding fault with the institution for not giving its students a first-class training. ... The industries must, for their own ultimate self-interest...
President Lowell and President John Grier Hibben of Princeton were among the most prominent guests of honor at the inauguration of Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, eminent physicist and educator, as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Eastman Court on the Charles River Campus yesterday afternoon. President Lowell spoke briefly at the exercises, stressing the pioneer work done by M. I. T. in the field of technical education, and the public service it has rendered. President Hibben brought a welcome from Princeton, where Dr. Compton had served on the faculty prior to his elevation to his present post...