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Roger Ward Babson is a famed statis tician, predicter of the 1929 stock market crash, who has lately turned bullish. Resembling greatly a goateed New England preacher, he is a shrewd, pragmatic religionist, a devout member of the Congre gational & Christian Churches. He is chairman of its Commission on Church Attendance. Last week, in the September Federal Council Bulletin, he presented statistics gleaned thus far in a five-year survey on church going. Chief points: ¶In 1930 and 1931, some 33% of the total membership of 903 Congregational & Christian churches went to church every Sunday...
...content merely with presenting his statistics, Roger Babson also offers advice. Ministers with dwindling congregations, says he, should be aware of, and seek to correct, the following conditions...
...Mother," "Get a Job," "Save." When one such marking, the simple number "31,"* was carved on a boulder on the property of Mrs. Leila Webster Adams, widow of Manhattan Architect Rayne Adams and descendant of early settlers, she rose up in protest, revealed the carver to be Roger Ward Babson, famed statistician. Explained Statistician Babson, whose family settled on Cape Ann in 1628: "The work I'm doing is part of an educational plan . . . which will take me some years to complete. ... In short, I believe young people when outdoors should see something besides advertisements to smoke certain brands...
Economist Roger Ward Babson blamed the Depression on Calvin Coolidge because he "got the businessmen on a stepladder and then the ladder was knocked down...
Score; Harvard 51, Babson 25, Goals; Merty R. Morris 6, Henderson 6, Silin 2, Huntington 2, Nevin 2, Downs 2, Johnson, Daley, Dow, Levan, Collins, Fouls; Morris 2, Henderson, Daley, Merry, Downs, Colvin. Refree, House, Time; 4. 20 minute quarters...