Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...direction, there will be a result. The precipitate in this particular instance is a theatrical play. Certainly, there are many embryonic virtuosos who remain quite indifferent to production in the fields suitable to their inclinations, until some accident, perhaps, stirs them to expression. I am sure that after Professor Baker's decision had been rendered, an after-thought crept into the minds of some students that they were fitted for just such work as was customary in the Workshop, and that they were being deprived of their inalienable rights, etc., etc. The press thus performed the veritable function of stirring...
...king is dead! Long live the king! It is always most welcome to youth, when men of affairs suggest paths to be taken. It only remains to decide whether or not the suggestions are worth taking. Ever since the announcement that Professor Baker departs from the University, the resentment of the students has been turned in wrath toward various human objects, but in order to live, it is necessary to adopt one's self to changing circumstances...
...late to be shedding tears. Professor Baker has left, and someone must fill his place; and to look at the whole affair with a different eye, perhaps it is advantageous. After all it is not quite certain whether artists (of dramaturgy as well) are born or made; hence we may be assigning too much credit to Professor Baker...
Last week, Mrs. Wilson announced that this promise was to be made good. She was turning over to Mr. Baker "the entire private record in letters and documents of Mr. Wilson's service as President." The letters alone number 30,000. In addition there are many of Mr. Wilson's own memoranda made in shorthand, as well as notes which he had typed himself. Mrs. Wilson declared...
...Baker will have no restrictions whatever upon a full and truthful account. It will be an unhurried work, carefully verified at every point, and studied with co-operation of many of Mr. Wilson's friends and associates...