Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell made the main address of the evening before over 400 graduates. He made no direct reference to the resignation of Professor Baker, as it had been expected he would. He declared that the new business school was not started by "big business", but was recommended as an academic movement by the faculty of arts and sciences...
...suggestion which Mr. Hammond has made in the article reprinted below is one that will receive the hearty approval of those genuinely interested in the theatre and its development. To choose the best available man to succeed Professor Baker, to strengthen the Workshop further by associating with it men of high ideals actively engaged in developing American drama, are steps which must be taken, and at once. It may be that "an affiliation between Harvard and the Theatre Guild" is impossible; but all things are impossible until they have been tried. The past is bitter; "that way madness lies...
That the work in dramatic instruction at Harvard, inaugurated 30 years ago by Professor George P. Baker, who has recently accepted a professorship at Yale, should be continued, was the opinion expressed by Owen Wister '80, well-known playwright and novelist, in a written report of the Committee on English, which was submitted to the Board of Overseers at their January meeting, the reports of which have just been published...
...names of the members of the committee which is to consider this recommendation have not yet been announced, but it is understood that the University authorities have already begun a serious consideration of instructors eligible to succeed Professor Baker in his dramatic work at Harvard. Among those who have been mentioned for this post, it is reported, is Walter Prichard Eaton '00, a Harvard graduate, who has won fame as a dramatic critic...
Professor Baker followed Dean Briggs and responded to the praises of all those who spoke before him with a short talk in which he expressed his thanks and appreciation for all the help that the Workshop audience and workers, who composed his audience last night, had given him in English...