Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SECRETARY Edward George Lowry Jr.Philip Hunter Robb FOR CLASS COMMITTEE (Two to be elected) George Pierce Baker Jr. Walter Julius Milde John Gedney Cushman Philip Huntington Theopold Hiller Innes Brooks Whitehouse FOR CLASS DAY COMMITTEE (Seven to be elected) Frank Guthrie Akers John William Hammond Walter Scott Blanchard Arthur Brooks Harlow George Dewey Braden Clark Hodder George Wadsworth Burgess Morrison Mills Walter Leeds Chapin Jr. Thomas Nickerson Jr. Philip Wigglesworth Chase Leonard Lispenard Robb Byron Ritter Cutcheon Adolph Walter Samborski Malcolm Whelen Greenough Philip Spalding FOR ALBUM COMMITTEE (Five to be elected) Thomas Dawes Blake 2nd Merrill Garcelon John Lyon...
...indifference of the authorities at Harvard toward Professor Baker and his famous drama course, which has resulted in moving the course bodily to Yale, is probably the result of an old Brahmin tradition in Back Bay that any one having to do with the theatre is just a wee bit declasse. It is all right to work around footlights in Hasty Pudding theatricals, with the proper patronesses, but beyond that one simply does not go. However, as Professor Baker can probably do his work much more efficiently at Yale, the existence of this attitude at Harvard would seem...
...dedicated to Mr. George F. Baker, New York banker, the donor of the $5,000,000 gift to the Business School last spring...
...raising funds for things it really wanted. While starving the Workshop it raised more than $30,000,000, including its recent ten-million-dollar drive, from which six millions were pledged to the business school but not a cent to the drama. This drive blocked the effort which Mr. Baker's friends wished to make to raise money for a college theatre workshop, and thus he was given as plainly as possible to understand that though the Harvard officials were anxious to teach advertising and accounting they took no serious interest in the development of creative literature...
...conformity with the spirit of a practical age, it may have the right to do so. But has it the right virtually to cast off a man who for thirty-six years has served it faithfully? It has decided too late that it has no need of Mr. Baker. His aims and aspirations have long been known; the university has accepted his labor and expressed its gratitude, but if it intended to do no more it should have made that fact clear to him long ago. To Harvard he gave the best efforts of his best years and Harvard, having...