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...Wooster, Ohio, last week an old man who had recently had a leg amputated at the hip was made very happy. He was Dean Emeritus Elias Compton of the College of Wooster. He had just learned that his son. Professor Karl Taylor Compton, chairman of Princeton's physics department, had been made 11th President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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...
Alert, 42-year-old President Compton. like his father, is a Wooster graduate (1908). He taught there one year, then at Reed College (Portland, Ore.), then at Princeton where he was made an assistant professor in 1913. During the War he was an aeronautical engineer in the Signal Corps. The year following he was associate scientific attache at the U. S. Embassy in Paris. As outside jobs, he is consulting physicist for the U. S. Department of Agriculture and for General Electric...
...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...
...business" efficiency which has recently become so popular in the national government apparently lies behind the reorganization of the administration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The move which brings Dr. Compton of Princeton to the presidency of the largest educational institution of its kind at the same time establishes a new executive organization bearing a striking similarity to that of a large business corporation. With the present president in the office of Chairman of the Corporation, Technology next year will innovate an administration whereby the executive initiative of broad policies is not hampered by the usual routine of office...