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...forum on the post-war draft originally scheduled to be held in Emerson D last night, has been postponed until a later undetermined date. Featuring the presidents of Tufts and M.I.T., Leonard Carmichael and Karl P. Compton, the forum had to be called off when President Compton was suddenly called to Washington to speak at a Senate hearing on the same subject of a post-war draft...
...Arthur Holly Compton, University of Chicago physicist and 1927 Nobel Prizewinner, accepted the chancellorship of Washington University at St. Louis, thus becoming the third Compton brother to be a college president. Brother Karl is president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brother Wilson is president of Washington State College (TIME...
Leonard Carmichael, president of Tufts, and Karl P. Compton, president of M.I.T., will lead a forum on "Post-War Compulsory Military Training" to be held in Emerson D Monday night at 8:15 o'clock...
...meeting will not be a debate, but merely a discussion to cover all phases of the question and draw some conclusions. Normally the three would offset each other, for Compton and Carmichael are both reputed to be mildly for the draft...
...Board, chosen by President Frank B. Jewett of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the Army & Navy, is composed of 40 scientists, half civilians, half Army & Navy men. Its head: Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T. Other members of the executive committee: Chemist Roger Adams, of the University of Illinois; Alphonse R. Dochez, of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Brigadier General William A. Borden, director of the Army's New Developments Division; Rear Admiral Julius A. Furer, the Navy's coordinator of research...