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...Samuel Wesley Stratton, for 22 years director of the U. S. Bureau of Standards, was inaugurated President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during commencement week at the Boston school. Sharing interest with him was Thomas Miller Edison, son of the inventor, who was graduated from the Institute...
President Lowell was unable to attend on account of the inauguration dinner to President Stratton at the Institute of Technology. Among the letters read was one from President Eliot, in which he spoke of the high position which Professor Winter had gained for public speaking as a subject for college instruction, and concluded...
...with the black caps and gowns. Against such a background there stood out in an even more startling manner the delegates from numerous foreign learned societies, whose gowns were bright red from head to foot. The entire assemblage rose to its feet and applauded for several minutes when Dr. Stratton and the speakers stepped onto the stage...
...Gordon '81 opened the ceremonies with an invocation, and Mr. Wallace Goodrich gave three numbers on the organ during the course of the exercises. The first of the principal speeches was made by Mr. L. C. Meriam. President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, after which Dr. Stratton delivered his inaugural address...
...inauguration of Dr. S. W. Stratton as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Symphony Hall this morning, President Eliot is scheduled to make an address. Major-General G. O. Squier and Governor C. H. Cox, Law '04 will speak as representatives of the national government and the Commonwealth respectively...