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...Karl Taylor Compton, retired chairman of Princeton's Physics Department, was inducted as the eleventh president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By his side stood Samuel Wesley Stratton, who turned over the presidency to become chairman of the Executive Board and Corporation. Excerpt from President Compton's inaugural: "There is a very real danger, for industry is competing with universities for the best men, often taking them and then perhaps later finding fault with the institution for not giving its students a first-class training. ... The industries must, for their own ultimate self-interest...
President Lowell and President John Grier Hibben of Princeton were among the most prominent guests of honor at the inauguration of Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, eminent physicist and educator, as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Eastman Court on the Charles River Campus yesterday afternoon. President Lowell spoke briefly at the exercises, stressing the pioneer work done by M. I. T. in the field of technical education, and the public service it has rendered. President Hibben brought a welcome from Princeton, where Dr. Compton had served on the faculty prior to his elevation to his present post...
...year, however, has provided at least one unique attempt at the solution of the difficulties belonging to the great office of president. This endeavor is to be credited to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The institute, which has had great presidents, has, in choosing a new president, Compton, asked the retiring president, Stratton, to become chairman of the executive committee and of the corporation. This chairmanship has its analogy in a method of the control of banks and other great corporations. The division of duties and of rights between these two offices has not yet been made; but all interested...
Mayor James J. ("Jimmy") Walker of New York left precipitately for Bermuda. So did Betty Compton, cinemactress...
Next July, when he takes office, President Compton will have charge of 487 teachers, 2,868 undergraduates, and the nation's "Brightest" and "Second Brightest" boys?Wilber Brotherton Huston and Charles H. Brunissen, winners in last summer's Edison examinations (TIME...