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...being a newsboy of itself will give an all-rounded education, adequate either for success in vocational life or other activity," said Professor J. M. Brewer, Director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in answer to a statement made by Roger W. Babson, industrial statistician...
Speaking at a dinner at the Harry E. Burroughs Newsboys' Foundation, Mr. Babson said: "I am more hopeful of the later success of a newsboy than I am of the average college graduate of today. Not many years hence, these newsboys, not those of the Back Bay, will be the leading bankers and merchants of Boston...
Professor Brewer, continuing his criticism of Mr. Babson's statement, and discussing the training of a newsboy, said...
Speeches by many an oilman and Roger W. Babson, airplane races and stunting. exhibits of $12,000,000 worth of equipment last week entertained 100,000 visitors to the Sixth International Petroleum Exhibition and Congress, held in Tulsa, Okla. Yet to oilmen entertainment such as this can be only transitory. Always jostling their composure is knowledge that world consumption trails production. But one development during the Exposition cheered them, so cheered ever-optimistic Edwin Benjamin Reeser, president of the American Petroleum Institute, that he predicted U. S. production and consumption would balance...
Nearby, Prognosticator Babson (see p. 52) conducts a similar school for rising young men (Babson Institute), who study at businesslike desks, speak their examinations into whirring dictaphones, con Babson graphs, charts, advice sheets. The Babsons may be the unconscious go-betweens in many a happy timocratic union...