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Last week Yale librarian James T. Babb announced that after more than a year of "agonizing" decisions, the list of books for the first permanent, purposefully selected White House library had been completed...
...Babb's committee imposed two limitations on itself in compiling the list. First, the authors represented, with only a few exceptions, are American; and second, no living writers of fiction, or poetry are included. Within these limits, the White House library is a good one. Its 1,780 titles include a fair cross-section of American literature, an excellent collection of works on the history of the United States, and intelligently chosen samples of American scholarship in most significant areas of study (with the exception of the natural sciences...
...sweltering hot on Sunday afternoon at North Hadley Pond. North Hadley, Mass.-the thermometer hit 92° in the shade. But 76 people, ranging from 84-year-old David Babb to seven-month-old Paul Holland, waited on folding chairs ranged along the bank with the 130-year-old Congregational Church behind them. At length, three rowboats rounded the point, each bearing a minister rowed by a teen-aged boy. They stopped in a line, about 35 ft. offshore...
...shocked to find out how few Harvard students thought about business as a career," commented Jervis J. Babb MBA '24, former President of Lever Brothers Company. Babb delivered the final evening lecture of the 1959 Career Conferences last night at Leverett...
...attributed the apathy of Harvard toward business to a misunderstanding of what has taken place in business during the last generation. Concluding his remarks, Babb expressed the belief that "There is an opportunity in this world which only business can contribute: making possible for people to have a better economic way of life...