Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who sent their children there were a measure of its success: they included college presidents (Compton of M.I.T., Conant of Harvard, Carmichael of Tufts); bishops (Dun of Washington, Nash of Massachusetts); professors (Harvard Law School's Thomas Reed Powell, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead...
...fact which the President emphasized this week when he rebuked Dr. Karl Compton for failing to point that out in a recent Atlantic Monthly article...
...Karl T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pointed out in reply that "most students are former G.I.'s to whom the colleges have obligations," and that if the law were passed, it would be impossible for M.I.T. to operate...
...Appointed a nine-man commission to draft a U.S. peacetime universal training plan. The chairman, chosen by the commission members: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Karl T. Compton...
...country needs all the well-educated people of high calibre that it can get," continued Compton, and indicated that financial difficulties are keeping many of the nation's best men out of college at a time when there is a need for continued scientific progress...