Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final plans presented by the 12 architects in the final stage of the competition to select an architect for the group of buildings to house the business School under the G. F. Baker Foundation will be on exhibition in Robinson Hall all this week, according to an announcement Saturday by Dean G. H. Edgell '09 of the School of Architecture. The exhibition is open to the public...
Princeton, N. J., Jan. 9. The Big Three hockey competition will open tomorrow night when the Yale sextet opposes Princeton in the Hobart Baker Memorial Rink. Although a comparison of scores gives the Blue an edge in tomorrow night's encounter, the battle promises to be a close...
George M. Cohan in a special article written for the Chicago Tribune has shown unsuspected generosity and devotion to Harvard. Discussing Harvard's loss of Professor Baker, this inveterate joker turns tragedy into farce, and concludes: "If there is anything I can do to help Harvard.... I'll be only too delighted to hop on to Cambridge once or twice a week with my dancing shoes and give the boys buck and wing lessons...
During the last few years there has been such a pressure for admission that the School has had to turn away hundreds from its doors. In 1923 only 332 out of 443 who applied were admitted, and this year only 300 were admitted from 617 applicants. The Baker gift has stimulated a tremendous interest in the school throughout the country, and the plan of mid-year entrance has done much to relieve the pressure on the school as it is now equipped...
With the same success that Professor Baker had, the manager of the Harvard Dining Halls for several years fought to have the ancient and overequipped Memorial Hall abandoned. In its place he desired an up to date, first-class cafeteria with a modern restaurant. He proposed that the college erect a two-story building, on or near Harvard Square. The ground floor was to be a cafeteria, similar to the Splendid, the second floor was to be a well furnished restaurant. His efforts were rewarded by refusals, coupled with the recommendation that the cafeteria, which was disliked by the President...