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...emphasis on hard work and scholarship. Wooster was full of young men equally determined to get ahead. Ben ate at a boarding house where Robert E. Wilson, now chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana, waited on table, and played on a baseball team (the "Never-Sweats") with Karl T. Compton, now chairman of the corporation of M.I.T., and Karl's brother Wilson, until recently, president of the State College of Washington. Deciding to become a civil engineer, Ben switched to Ohio Northern University, working summers as an attendant in an insane asylum. In 1913, with his hard-won degree...
...Karl T. Compton, former president of M.I.T. and now acting chairman of the commission, reported that the Armed Forces are working on preliminary plans for training facilities. Many Congressmen, however, foresee a long debate before the plan is instituted. Others feel that UMT should wait until the necessity of drafting young men is over...
...musical, Hold Everything, based on the million-dollar fight racket which Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney had so magically inspired. They had some nice tunes by De Sylva, Brown and Henderson: You're the Cream in My Coffee, Don't Hold Everything. They had Betty Compton. They had Victor Moore. They had a part for Lahr - a punch-drunk fighter named Gink Schiner. What...
These meetings brought leading speakers to Cambridge including Karl T. Compton, former president of M.I.T., Jacques Maritain and Hu Shih, both of Princeton, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '24, and Manly Fleischmann '29, director of the Defense Production Administration...
These meetings brought leading speakers to Cambridge including Karl T. Compton, former president of M.I.T., Jacques Maritain and Hu Shih, both of Princeton, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '24, and Manly Fleischmann '29, director of the Defense Production Administration...