The Pecks have split up — for a little over a week while Bob heads to Iowa City, Iowa, to care for Murphy while our nephew and niece have a summer holiday. Bob, ever the resourceful traveler, researched the travel options to Boston’s Logan airport and found that our housesit is very close to two commuter rail stops.
He picked the Needham Heights station, from which the train departs at five past the hour and would take him all the way (about 40 minutes on the train) to Boston’s South Station, from which he could catch a bus that would take him another 15 minutes to the airport.
I saw him off at 1:05 pm, and he is currently at the airport awaiting a late afternoon flight.
Zeus and I will be holding down the fort in Needham. After Bob left, I walked past the Olin College of Engineering across the street from the house to Babson College, a top school for business and best college for entrepreneurship.
but sounds like they focus on health/diet foods
One of my main reasons for exploring the campus a bit was because of a large globe that Bob had seen on one of his walks with Zeus. The globe is located behind a statue of Roger Babson, for whom the college is named.
founder of Babson’s Statistical Organization
(one of first publishers of financial statistics),
predicted the 1929 stock market crash, author of 50 books,
one-time candidate for US President, and founder of 3 colleges!
and commissioned the 25 ton globe to impress upon students
and other viewers an appreciation of the world as a whole.
I have included photos of two of the markers, but some highlights from the school’s history include:
The college started as the Babson Institute in 1919 with 27 students focusing on practical business training. The college ceased normal operations during WWII and became a US Navy Supply Corps School, training more than 2,000 reserve officers. The class of 1948 was the first to receive a BS degree in business administration and study liberal arts as well. The first MBA degrees were awarded in 1953. In the 1960s, the school became coed and was renamed Babson College. In the 1970s the college started the first Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. The school has had 4 national championships in Division III sports — 3 in soccer and 1 in ice hockey.
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