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

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Eleventh President of the Institute Fifteen years ago, in 1 930, Karl Taylor Compton became the eleventh president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He came to the Institute at the beginning of the Depression and brought the Institute through this period without deficits, emergency campaign funds, or salary cuts, and reached the end of the Depression with a stronger staff and a more intensified program in research and teaching. Under his administration, the George Eastman Labora- tories of Physics and Chemistry were planned and built, and stand today not only as a center but as a symbol of a fruitful union between pure and applied science. During fifteen years, by his eflfective interpretation of the ideals and objec- tives of science. President Compton has helped to establish higher goals for science and new faith in its power to do good not only at his own institution but in the world of science in general. From the very beginning he has empha- sized the new frontiers which pure and applied science can open to national enterprise and the benefits which scientific development can bring through the establishment of new industries and in the creation of the necessary conditions for a rising standard of living. In this way he has maintained Speakers ' Dais at Dr. Complon ' s Inaugural Dr. Compton and his predecessor, Dr. Stratton, after the inauguration

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Karl Taylor Compton. Winter s Brilliance

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Walker Memorial Building