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Wellesley's windfall came from the first of a series of contests set up by the late Grace Knight Babson, wife of Statistician Roger Babson. When she died two years ago, her will set aside $100,000 for 100 years, the fund's income earmarked as reward money for Wellesley children under 16, who "shall have an opportunity to exhibit their memory retention of scriptural verses either from the Old or New Testament." The rules: candidates must attend some religious school, must memorize 20 verses to qualify, after which each verse memorized earns $1-up to $100. Among...
Some of Wellesley's ministers doubt the value of such financially motivated learning, but Congregationalist Babson, 84, dismisses their scruples. "Everything else is on salary or commission basis, including the preachers' salaries," he says...
John Stotler and Eugene Lipkowitz drove a Corvette to victory in the Fall Rally of the Babson Institute Sports Car Club. The contest was run over more than 90 miles of backwoods roads where the majority of the entries got lost...
...Sunday, HMSC members will hold a rally with Babson and a gymkhana with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Club will also sponsor an Interclub Invitational Rally on Sunday...
...Harvard Motor Sports Club won its second team award of the season at a gymkhana sponsored by the Babson Institute Sports Car Club in Wellesley yesterday. Last week the HMSC captured the team prize at the Belknap Hillclimb of the Boston Motor Sports Club in Laconia...