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Sentence after sentence in the book is long, and ambiguous. The statistical analysis, and the formulas given in the footnotes, give the book the appearance of being a cross between a Babson report and a geometry textbook. The continued use of this book will inevitably force many students to fall back on the tutoring schools for help. copies of McIssac and Smith should become frozen assets on the shelves of second hand book stores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FRIEND OF THE TUTORING SCHOOLS | 12/10/1936 | See Source »

...graduate of Webber College I challenge your statement in Oct. 5 issue that the most famed educational wanderer is a boys school. Since 1928 girls at Webber have studied in Boston during the fall months and migrated to Babson Park, Fla. each January for their winter semester. Starting with five students, Webber now has 62 daughters of fathers prominent in U. S. affairs who have concluded that Webber, at a cost of $1,550 per year, offers the best preparation to young women for future business and financial responsibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...chairman of his Church's commission on Church attendance, a pioneer in investigating the simple matter of how many pews are filled on Sunday, Roger Babson has reached the conclusion that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Effective Church | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Kieffer; that these show an increase for all U. S. religious bodies of 670,801 members in 1935, or 1.08% as compared with the total U. S. population gain of .71%; that according to Dr. Kieffer "this refutes the statement often made that the Church is declining." Nonetheless Statistician Babson believes that people in general and Congregational-Christians in particular stay away from church, and last week during the South Hadley de liberations, which were broadly planned to focus on "The Effective Church," he arose with some ready ideas on the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Effective Church | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Businesslike Mr. Babson advocated al locating work as follows: a Church At tendance Division would gather statistics on the state of the church by "sampling" questionnaires; a Family Responsibility Division would keep tabs on the number of children born to church members; a Personal Habits Division would "record the percentage of church members who are strictly temperate and who shun harmful habits"; an unnamed Division might "record the homes where the Christian flag is flying." Finally, "without taking any part in politics, our Congregational-Christian Churches should strive to get out a 100% vote of our church members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Effective Church | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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