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Named for Dr. K.T. Compton, honorary alumnus of Harvard, former head of the Physics department at Princeton and now president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a trophy cup of old English gilt silver is being given by the student body of Technology for perpetual competition between Harvard, Princeton, and M.I.T. in a crew race to be held each spring...
...years of endeavor to establish this race as a permanent event in the rowing calender, the new cup will be placed in competition for the first time this Spring when the race will be held on the Charles on April 29th. The sup will be presented to President Compton by the president of the Technology student body the night before the event, and he will personally present it to the winning crew the following afternoon. In addition to the cup, there will be a complement of some form on which will be recorded the particulars of each race...
...Manhattan's swank Ambassador Hotel where his good friend Theatrical Promoter A. C. Blumenthal maintains a suite. Colonel Sir Shri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, Maharajah of Mysore is a "model Indian prince," more interested in reforms than in the jewels, dancing girls, elephants of his important province. Betty Compton is a sleek-haired musicomedy dancer, who had a part in Fifty Million Frenchmen...
Visibly ill of body and nerve. "Jimmy" Walker boarded the Europe-bound S. S. Conte Grande, locked himself away. Betty Compton, his friend, also sailed, with her mother. Aboard were newshawks, crossing to return on the new Italian liner Conte di Savoia. Miss Compton & mother visited the Walker suite. The Walker valet. Greenhouse, deckwalked the Compton dog. Mr. Walker finally emerged from his cabin, gave newshawks an ancient wisecrack about his whiskers growing so long he must shave or buy a fiddle, and denied that he was about to return a visit to the Maharajah of Mysore...
Last week Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a plan for guarding against possible future deficits. President Karl Taylor Compton said that this year's budget was balanced, but the M. I. T. faculty voted anyway to lay up a reserve as follows: Between next Dec. i and July 1, 1933, the staff will give up 10% of their salaries, with $500 exempt. If M. I. T. does not need all of this fund, it will be pro-rated back at the end of the period. The remainder of the reserve fund involves a much-discussed source of university income...