Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Thus, in 1943, he was Chairman of an important mission to England, and during the same year he made a 28,000 mile inspection trip which took him to the headquarters of General McArthur in Australia and to the New Guinea fighting zone to study the use of scientific devices under active ser- vice conditions in the Southwestern Pacific. As everyone knows, Dr. Compton comes from a family with very deep academic roots. His father. Dr. Elias Compton, was one of the great teachers of his time in the College of Wooster where for many years he was Professor of Philosophy and Dean. I sometimes think that our Dr. Compton must inherit from his father the same broad hum- anistic interests and a singular capacity as a coun- sellor to analyze and suggest solutions for the puzzling problems of other people. Something, Compton on a war mission to the Pacific Technology s service flag

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too, must have been gained through contact with sports; for back at the College of Wooster there is still a tradition that Karl Compton is the only graduate who in his senior year earned his letters in basketball, baseball and football and also man- aged to graduate with high distinction. Probably it is no accident that the three Compton brothers, after distinguished careers in related fields, have now become presidents of important American educational institutions. Dr. Compton knows better than anyone else that nothing in the United States can ever stand still, least of all a great educational institution like M.I.T. In characteristic fashion he is already thinking of the days ahead in which, for the eighth time in less than 200 years, victory will open in America new doors of opportunity. Already plans have been made for the establishment of an Elec- tronics Laboratory as a joint enterprise of the De- partments of Physics and Electrical Engineering, and for a new Library with expanded functions to serve both as a great scientific library and as a center for the whole cultural life of the Ihstitution. New units will include a dormitory and gym- nasium. Above all, in old fields and new, M.LT. will seek a staff of outstanding experts ' marked, ' in Dr. Compton ' s words, ' not alone by individual brilliance, but by a homogeneous strength that insures cooperative creative work. ' R. G. C.