Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Reed, anti-League Democrat, was present to argue for the newspaper. Would he be so kind, asked Mr. Taft, as to join his case with the case of The Baltimore Post, exactly similar? All present in the crowded court room glanced at Newton D. Baker, matchless pro-League orator, counsel for the Baltimore newspaper. Senator Reed politely declined the offer. Old antagonism flashed and vanished as the law ground...
...Baker said that, if his case might immediately follow Senator Reed's, he could do with half the allotted time. Part of the court smiled...
...passing of Professor Baker and Dean Briggs has brought about a feeling among some that Harvard's English Department was on the wane. Such men as Professors Kittredge. Lowes, and Perry, to mention only a very few must have been overlooked in the lamentation over the crackling and crumbling of Harvard's great reputation. Those loubters can scarcely fail to realize that with the conling, of Professor Tatlock their criticism will lose its force: and those who have believed consistently in the department will feel with pleasure that it is to be even greater than before...
Professor Tatlock enters Harvard as a recognized authority. He will not only take over a course of Professor Baker's in the history of the drama, but will be an added force in the study of English literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare. One can only hope that Professor Tatlock will find the atmosphere of Harvard a congenial inspiration to his ambition. He will be met with full courtesy and deep enthusiasm, for his proved ability will help to sustain the intellectual preminence of Harvard...
...expansion of the Business School Library to meet the increased needs of the School has been stressed by the administration as one of the greatest improvements that will be made possible by George F. Baker's gift. The physical limitations of the Library will be removed when the school moves into its new quarters, and thus it will be made possible to plan how to meet the problem of providing sufficient research and reference material...