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Sages. Many were the self-proclaimed sages who declared they had predicted the break. But outstanding Wise Man was Roger W. Babson who, after a record of much unsuccessful seering, publicly forecast the decline, although instead of his break of "60-80 points," the industrial average dropped 183 (according to Prof. Irving Fisher's index of 50 most active industrials). Quickly capitalized was Seer Babson's accuracy, as were Wag Cantor's losses. Newsstands displayed for $3 a pamphlet giving Babsonic market recommendations. A long silent sage, John Moody, late last week predicted the break was over, that 1930 would...
...most noted city planners and landscape architects will lecture at the school this year, among them A. C. Comey '07, whose work in the past has gained him the position of city planner for Milwaukee and St. Paul, and John Nolen, who drew up the general plans for the Babson Institute and for Smith and Bates Colleges...
Causes of this undermining were: 1) Warnings from the Federal Reserve Board and other prophets of disaster?warnings which, scoffed at when given, nevertheless filled the Market with a conviction of sin. 2) A period of almost two months (since the Babson Break early in September) in which it had taken strychnine-injections to push quotations ahead. The September slump (currently almost ignored in favor of the peculiar theory that the Market crashed without warning) was of tremendous importance in its indication that a Market which could survive only by constant rises had reached the limits of its climb...
...chairman of Table One, which will discuss "Vocational Adjustment", is G. W. Coleman, President of the Babson Institute, Wellesley. Professor H. S. Elliott of Union Theological Seminary, New York City, will be chairman of Table Two, which is to discuss "Misrepresentation of Religious Beliefs and Practices." Professor J. J. Mahoney of the Department of Education, Boston University, is to be chairman of Table Three, which will discuss "Community Conflict and Cooperation...
Dartmouth 1933: Bush, Babson, Forbes, Kaufman, Kelly, Newman, Okie, Sanborn, Shaver, Wakefield...