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I 4 y, ss gf A- N 4:1 ' X i -l I 53 lilly : 4 g i i X ga Kg! J Q Q35 M J 'I 32 ig ADMINISTRATION yi Key fo Q,fzCzm7 Behind a smoothly-running University are a group of personalities that make the wheels go round in the cyelotron and put the tick in the Brookings clock. Known to most students by the vague term, Hadministrationf' they are the group who manage to untangle the red tape of campus life. Their guidance is felt in every event, from the impressive inauguration of a new chancellor to the installation of stone seats in the Quad. A Housed in Brookings Towers, their offices are about as popular as an American soup kitchen in Poland. Worried, sleepy, frenzied, eager students shift from one foot to another as they wait for their turn to confer with the campus deanery. Busy secretaries keep track of Dr. Compton's elusive whereabouts via the inter-office communication system, while registrars tabulate the mounting student enrollment on four-Hgured adding machines. The general atmosphere is that of an ivy-covered Wall Street, for operating a growing university is like running any other corporation -it's a big business. 17
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111.3 ......-- ....---' ...ui-' ....-- Eh::tEEE?E7iziaiaaattiiliuiat'213 . . 3131. 'HYfEE:EEE:::::::::23g .. -.mm--i-1-,1-.-'... , ' v,-.-.-,i.z'.xa.. - Chancellor Arthur Holly Compton ,fgcfminiri fra ford Dr. Arthur H. Compton, atomic energy scientist, and winner ot the Nobel Prize in physics in 1927, yvas inaugurated as the ninth chancellor of Wash- ington University on February 22, 19-1-6. He was not, however. any stranger to the Hilltop, for he hadlserved as head of the physics department from 19211 to 1923. His family has long been known in educational and scientific lields-his father taught at YVooster College, Uhio, for forty-live years and the chancel- lor and his two brothers and one sister hold a total of forty-four college and university degrees and membership in thirty-nine honorary societies. Dr. Compton is also active in civic affairsg since 193-1 he has served as chairman of the Layman's Nlissionary Movement, and as co-chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews since 1939. He has been a member of the National Can- cer Advisory Board since 1937 and a regent of the Smithsonian Institute since 1938. At the time of the announcement of his appoint- ment as chancellor by Harry Brookings VVallace, president of the board of directors and acting chancellor, Dr. Compton declared that VVashing- ton University, as an urban university, held great opportunities for development, both as a training center for leaders in the held of science and in liberal arts. warding diplomas Mr. and Mrs. Compton Characteristic pose
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