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...discussion of the worth of a liberal college education has taken an up-curve. And as usual, the debate has been marked by the need of definition, and by the fact that the participants are talking at cross purposes. Much publicity was given the statement of Messrs. Barron and Babson that "New England colleges were failures" because they did not contribute to the prosperity of that section of the country. Taking this as an indictment of education, the pedagogic replies were numerous; of which the address at the University Club in Boston by President Hopkins of Dartmouth was the most...
Paul Gustafson '12, who was coach of the University team two years after his graduation, is one of the leading players on the alumni twelve. A. E. Reed '26, captain in his senior year, W. W. Babson '26, R. F. Murphy '27, Joseph Sullivan '26, and W. E. Westman '22 are among the other alumni, for the most part students in the Gradlate Schools, who do fighting togs once a week...
...goal. R. F. Murphy '27 scored the third goal for the University stickmen and then C. P. McQuaid '23 running half the length of the field made a fast shot to the ropes which the goalguard was unable to intercept. The Alumni's single point came when William Babson '25, skirted the University's defense men unnoticed and, taking a long pass, evaded G. A. Weller '29, the University goal, to score. In the closing minutes of the game, Captain M. W. Linn '27 took the ball from a scrimmage and scored after bewildering...
...Roger W. Babson, statistician, big-business-builder, efficiency expert, lately declared: "Higher education today is living in a fool's paradise." He represented that most of his business acquaintances viewed college-trained job-seekers with actual alarm. To find out if this could be generally true, President Simon S. Baker of Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) made a pilgrimage to Manhattan, where he interviewed employers and employment agencies from J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Carnegie Foundation on down. Last week President Baker announced that, to his great surprise, much that Mr. Babson had said received wide endorsement. President...
...Babson speaks, as always, on the basis of sound and undeniable facts. It his position he is faced daily with the reality that materialism is on the way to becoming a Frankenstein, devouring its own products anti destroying its newly created benefits. Left to its own sphere commercialism, which is merely a scornful name for business sagacity, is a genuine contribution to the progress of man; to prove it one has only to compare office methods of today with those of a quarter of a century ago. But commercialism ceases to be a blessing when it enters other fields besides...