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Roger W. Babson, statistician, big-business-builder, efficiency expert, lately declared: "Higher education today is living in a fool's paradise." He represented that most of his business acquaintances viewed college-trained job-seekers with actual alarm. To find out if this could be generally true, President Simon S. Baker of Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) made a pilgrimage to Manhattan, where he interviewed employers and employment agencies from J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Carnegie Foundation on down. Last week President Baker announced that, to his great surprise, much that Mr. Babson had said received wide endorsement. President...
Under the auspices of the Seminary of Economics, Dr. R. R. Kuezynski, German economist, will speak Monday evening on. "The Economic Unification or Europe." Dr. Kuezynski was formerly Municipal Statistician of Sohoenberg, Germany, and is a high authority in his field. The lecture will be held in Widener V at 7.45 o'clock, and will be open to members of the Seminar and their guests...
Life's Worth. By intricate figuring, Dr. Louis I. Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statistician, figured that a newborn baby is worth $9,333 to a family whose income is $2,500 yearly. Such parents spend $10,000 raising the child to the age of 18. Then, if it is a boy, he may be expected to earn (in excess of his expenditures) $29,000 the rest of his life. At 25, through elimination of less efficient competitors, his future income will total $32,000. But if he lives to 50, he will earn on the average only...
...dying from cancer was increased 47.3 per cent. In 1910 the cancer budget in the life table generation of 100,000 females at the age of ten was 9,850. But under the conditions of 1924 that number increased to 11,957, or 21.4 per cent."-Louis I. Dublin, statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Manhattan...
...What able statistician predicted business panic within two or three years...