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...happily free from the pernicious influences of a vapid university atmosphere Fortunately, no one taxes Harvard seriously these days, and as the old saying goes. "You can always fell a Harvard man but you can not fell him much." F. L. Hoffman Dean of Advanced Department Babson Institute
...latest of these nervous persons who view with alarm is Vice President Frederick L. Hoffman of the Babson Institute, who should know better. Speaking in Ford Hall Sunday evening Mr. Hoffman made the hair rise on the heads of his listeners by informing them that whereas the murder rate had formerly been only seventy-two out of every million, it was now nearly eighty. The number of corpses, he darkly insinuated would, if place end to end, extend for nearly twenty miles; and in ten years, if business is good, the line would stretch from Cambridge to New Haven...
...American Economic Association has made announcement of the Roger Babson Prize Essay Contest ending October 1, 1924, on the forecast of price of wheat, of cotton, or of lumber The first prize of $650 is open to undergraduate and graduate students in all colleges and universities in the United States The second group of $400 is open to undergraduate students only...
...implications of Mr. Mellon's tax reduction scheme were brought out in the discussion which followed the proposal. No predictions were so sensational as those of Roger Ward Babson. Mr. Babson, 48-year-old statistician of Wellesley Hills, Mass., is President of Babson's Statistical Organization, originator of the " business barometers " which bear his name. Where Mr. Mellon proposed savings of tens of dollars to taxpayers, Mr. Babson calculates that there will be hundreds of dollars saved...
...argument is that the manufacturer passes his taxes on to the consumer. If these taxes are lightened the consumer will get the benefit by a decrease of prices that will save 2% of the taxpayers' income. In addition, Mr. Babson concludes that the passage of the tax reduction plan would prevent a bonus and thereby make a difference of an extra 5% in living costs. Thus for an unmarried man the calculations...