Word: otelia
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...family into which Arthur Compton was born 43 years ago in Wooster, Ohio, is something for students of heredity and environment to cluck over. The father is Elias Compton, Ph.D., D.D., Presbyterian clergyman, longtime professor of philosophy and psychology at the College of Wooster. The mother is Otelia Catherine Augspurger Compton, sprig of a German Mennonite family, who three years ago got an LL.D. for being "wife and mother of the Comptons." The parents did not try to choose careers for their four children but encouraged their natural bents. ''We used the Bible," said Father Elias, "and common...