Word: statistician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geer, Director of Physical Education at the University, has accepted an invitation from Mr. L. I. Dublin head statistician of the Metropolitian Life Insurance Company, to cooperate with him in compiling detailed statistics on the longevity of college athletes...
When some eminent statistician first compiled the figures which showed that scholastic success was a continuous process from school and college to professional school and life, he thought, perhaps, that he had solved his problem. No longer would it be necessary for anxious parents and eminent educators to exhort the youth of the land to earnest study. The figures were plain to behold. The stern portals of Phi Beta Kappa would surely now be thronged by a host of eager applicants...
...implications of Mr. Mellon's tax reduction scheme were brought out in the discussion which followed the proposal. No predictions were so sensational as those of Roger Ward Babson. Mr. Babson, 48-year-old statistician of Wellesley Hills, Mass., is President of Babson's Statistical Organization, originator of the " business barometers " which bear his name. Where Mr. Mellon proposed savings of tens of dollars to taxpayers, Mr. Babson calculates that there will be hundreds of dollars saved...
...eminent statistician some time ago announced that the United States could not run more than twenty million motor cars. For more than that number there would be no money, no gas, no room, and no need. The increasing number of fume-emitting motors, according to public health officials, has made the Americans a race of blood-poisoned nervous wrecks. The nation is already half saturated with cars, and last month more were made than in any previous month. What dauntless courage is fostered in Detroit to assert that every man, woman, child, and college student will throw away their...
...Percy Brown, chief statistician of Hornblower and Weeks, will speak at the Colonial Club tonight at 7.30 o'clock under the auspices of the Business School Club. His subject will be "The Application of Statistics to Investment Banking...