At M. I. T. At 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.
Surprised and delighted, said he: "I didn't even know he was being considered for the place until we got word from friends who read the...
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