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DARKNESS AND DAY (298 pp.) - /. Compton-Burnett-Knopf...
...founded (in 1911) with money left by a Portland steamboat and mining tycoon named Simeon Gannett Reed. Its first president, William T. Foster, had a knack for gathering bright scholars, and soon such men as Economist Paul Douglas, now U.S. Senator from Illinois, and Physicist Karl T. Compton, later president of M.I.T., were teaching there...
Holders of the Compton, Adams, Rowe, and Sexton Cups, Coach Tom Bolles' men lost only to M.I.T. last year. They went on to capture the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Regatta in England...
Then someone drew attention to a novel called The North Wind of Love, written in 1944 by Scottish Nationalist Compton Mackenzie, onetime rector of Glasgow University, in which he describes a group of Scottish college graduates who conspire to liberate the Stone, but are exposed at the last moment. Said jubilant Author Mackenzie last week: "I hope I may have given good advice to the young men who carried out this successful effort and shown them what to avoid ... No patriotic Scot could help having a feeling of elation." Mysterious stickers appeared on Glasgow shop fronts: "Would you keep stolen...
Funds for the industrial management school were made possible by a $5,250,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Inc. Dr. Karl T. Compton, chairman of the M.I.T. corporation, stated that the idea for such a school is not new, since M.I.T. has offered courses in business and engineering administration since...