Education
Dartmouth College; Harvard University.
Dartmouth College; Harvard University.
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, he was a graduate of Newburyport High School in Newburyport, Massachusetts and Dartmouth College, graduating in 1920 after naval service in World War I. He received an Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard and served as a professor of economics and researcher there and briefly at the University of Pittsburgh. Stratton saw Middlebury through most of World World War II, when the institution hosted Naval V-12 units, and initiated an extensive program of construction while enlarging the student body and enriching the institution"s liberal arts curriculum.