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...make a place for its new President. M. I. T. reorganized its executive body in thoroughgoing fashion. Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, retiring President, now becomes chairman of the executive board and corporation, Big Businesslike, as befits the foremost U. S. technical college...
When Chairman Stratton selected President Compton as his successor he chose a man after his own heart. Both are midwesterners, both are physicists, both like to tinker, neither is an M. I. T. man. In its 65 years M. I. T. has had but one alumnus for its President...
...subscribers Lawrence ROTHGERBER. ask Aug. JR. JOHNSON CRAVEN that Cowle 30, Phipps 1862. ate Start your in Lawrence life: C. estimate A of Phipps. the WM. $1-per-day E. political EMERY laborer on activity FAST PASMORE the of 12-to-8 Career: Son of an JAMES C. Episcopalian STRATTON minister, grandson of an immigrant English cobbler, he was graduated from Pittsburgh High School at 16, rejected further schooling. Relatives, interested in Carnegie Co., got him his start there. Diligent, shrewd, he caught the eye of Andrew Carnegie, soon was moved away from sooty furnaces to the business office...
...Compton, now head of the Department of Physics, Princeton University, has been appointed President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it was announced by President S. W. Stratton following a meeting of the Corporation of the Institute late yesterday afternoon. Dr. Compton will take office next July, when Dr. Stratton will become Chairman of the Executive Committee and of the Corporation, a newly created executive position in which he will share the responsibilities of administration, but will be relieved of much of the detail...
...while no Illini has been a U. S. President or tycoon of the first magnitude, he will learn to share alumnal pride in j such figures as President Samuel Wesley Stratton of M.I.T., who took his B.S. at Illinois; Senator Otis F. Glenn of Illinois; Motormaker Ray Graham...