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...controversy over the respective merits of liberal education and vocational training has broken out at New Haven, with the Yale News and Mr. Roger W. Babson, founder of the Babson Institute, new antagonists on an ancient battle ground. A somewhat heated editorial on Mr. Babson's educational ideas, characterizing the business man as "the biggest butter and egg man ever laughed at", aroused the wrath of Mr. Babson, who has retorted with a letter designed to prove--via the Socratic method--the superiority of an institution which develops the fundamentals of a successful business career to the average four year...
These fundamentals Mr. Babson describes as integrity, industry, initiative thrift, and promptness, and he pertinently inquires, "Do you think that the environment of the conventional college, especially a large and fashionable college, is the best place for a boy to develop such habits...
Thus placing the discussion on the prosaic basis of business training, Mr. Babson gives the News opportunity to retort that a college is "no business training school. God forbid." "Living, not business, is life's purpose." And the college is not to be judged in terms of the business efficiency of its graduates...
...Roger W. Babson will speak on "Six 1's of Success" on December 11, Mr. Babson is a director of a large number of Power and Land Companies, and is President of Babson's Statistical Organization at Wellesley Hills. During the war he was appointed director general of information and education by the United States Government...
...Babson's versatility and wide knowledge is shown by the "Future Series," of which he is the author. In these books he deals with the future of the working classes, the method of investing money, churches, railroads, nations, world peace, and South America. His fame as a lecturer and writer on business questions is widespread...