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Karl Taylor Compton, Josiah Willard Hayden and Harold Edward Lobdell meet with Hayden Memorial Scholarship recipients in the president's office. Portrait painting of George Eastman is visible on the back wall. Technology Review, Jan 1941, p. 120.

Original Caption: "Winners of the Charles Hayden Memorial Scholarships assembled in the office of President Compton for presentation of certificates of award by J. Willard Hayden, President of the Hayden Foundation. Seated left to right are Mr. Hayden, Dr. Compton, and Dean H. E. Lobdell, '17, chairman of the committee on undergraduate scholarships. This year's group of Hayden scholarship men includes thirty Greater Boston students and five from New York. The Hayden Memorial Scholarships were established two years ago by the Hayden Foundation as a memorial to Charles Hayden, '90, to assist in the education at the Institute of young men who, by their previous records, show future promise in the fields of engineering and science."