Word: stratton
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Last Sunday, M.I.T. showed how safe such speculation was. In a brilliant demonstration of precision public relations, James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation, and Julius A. Stratton, the Institute's president, put on a two-hour press conference in which they described an Inner Belt route near M.I.T. in in terms of ranging from "Catastrophe" to institute's "most serious crisis" in the last half-century...
...effect is that the same names keep surfacing in an informal interlocking directorate. Among the chief boards are the National Science Foundation (Hesburgh, Clement, M.I.T.'s Julius Stratton, Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride), the Rockefeller Foundation (Hesburgh, Goheen, Caltech's Lee DuBridge), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Perkins, Goheen, Stratton, Hesburgh, McBride, Minnesota's O. Meredith Wilson, North Carolina's William Friday, U.C.L.A.'s Franklin Murphy, Illinois' David Henry), the Institute of International Education (Wilson, Hesburgh, Murphy, McBride, Henry...
...activists eloquently argue that spending time away from the campus benefits their schools. "It is important to have an understanding of the transformations and developments taking place in this country and world," says M.I.T.'s Stratton. Their membership shifts gradually; Stratton himself, for example, will have only a different degree of influence in his new job as chairman of the Ford Foundation...
...Julius Stratton, 64, M.l.T. A scholar as well as keen administrator, he spends at least a day each week on national committees: "People have asked me how you get on these boards, but the difficulty is staying off." A physicist, he has spent more than 40 years at M.I.T., says that "those of us who are centered on science have a national obligation to respond...
...late 1920s, President Stratton Brooks faced a year-long student-faculty revolt, triggered by his suspension of three sociology instructors for having asked 600 students if they thought the low economic status of women had any effect upon sexual relations. By then Missouri had long been caught, as President Elmer Ellis puts it, "between Northern aspirations and Southern methods of taxation...