Education: New Presidents

Goucher. Although it ranks 16th in enrolment among U. S. women’s colleges, the distinction and importance of Goucher College at Baltimore are disproportionate to its registration (985). Fourteen months ago its president, William Westley Guth, died. Nine months later acting President Hans Froelicher died. Then Dean Dorothy Stimson, cousin of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, became acting president (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week Goucher acquired a full-fledged president, David Allan Robertson, A. B., longtime (1904-23) member of the University of Chicago’s English faculty.

M. I. T. 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, see to it that the institute is financially able. . . .”