Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Pierce Baker, Master of Dramatic Arts, stand." Thus parodying the formula of commencement exercises, spoke LeBaron R. Briggs, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University. Prof. Baker, founder of the 47 Workshop, famed dramatic school, stood. Around him sat old friends-actors, stage hands, scene painters, electricians, musicians, prompters, auditors, graduates of his course. They had come to hear him express his regret that he was, of his own choice, leaving them, going away to start a dramatic school at Yale, financed by the $1,000,000 Harkness fund (TIME, Dec. 8). They had just...
Leaning against a grand piano, Prof. Baker thanked them...
...Coffin, Samuel Gompers, Charles M. Schwab, A. C. Bedford. Congress looked with suspicion at the Council of National Defense, jealous of its powers, exasperated by its efficiency. Mr. Gifford did not mind suspicion, but he did not permit interference. He did not hesitate to disagree with Secretary of War Baker over matters of policy, expenditure. He won every argument. One week after the Armistice was signed, he returned to the American Telephone & Telegraph...
...Baker, discussed changes, strove to foresee what further excursions, alarms, awaited their University. Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School since 1916, had been elected President of the University of Wisconsin, promised a salary of from $12,000 to $15,000 a year. He, after a conference with Miss Zona Gale, playwright member of a special Wisconsin committee, accepted the post. It is expected that he will remove to Wisconsin when President R. A. Birge, after over 50 years of service in that University, retires at the end of this year...
...winning from W. F. Howe Jr. of the Union Boat Club, H. N. Rawlins Jr. '27 showed that he should reach the final round if he can dispose of M. P. Baker '22 of the B. A. A. The scores of his match with Howe were...