Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week George Fisher Baker, near-billionaire chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, gave away another million dollars and again marked himself on the public mind as a highly individualistic giver. The Rockefellers, the Harknesses and Andrew Carnegie have given their hundreds of millions. Milton Hershey (chocolates, sugar, orphans), Augustus Juilliard (commission merchant, music), Julius Rosenwald (mailorder, Jews, Negroes), James B. Duke (tobacco, waterpower, his university, preachers), Mrs. Russell Sage (railroads, surveys) have given their scores of millions. All these have given largely and chiefly to found institutions and movements they have initiated...
...Baker too has given his score million?in goodly chunks to fill specific needs. Harvard, which graduated George Fisher Baker Jr. in 1899, wanted a graduate school of business. Mr. Baker handed it a grand $5,000,000. Harvard wanted more money for the business school; he gave it another $1,000,000. The late great Henry Pomeroy Davison needed money for Red Cross work during the War; Mr. Baker gave $2,000,000. The Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted Regault's painting "Salome"; Mr. Baker presented it. It wanted money; he gave $1,000,000. Cornell University asked...
Prof. Rogers may have acquired his social doctrine at Harvard, whence he was graduated in 1909. He was an early student in the Harvard Theatrical Workshop of Prof. George Pierce Baker, now Dean of the Yale Drama School. Since 1913 he has taught American, English and European Literature and Drama...
...annual meeting and outing of the Harvard Business School Alumni will be held this afternoon and evening at the New Ocean House, Swamp-scott. Members of the Association will meet at 2 o'clock at the Baker Library of the School...
...appreciated as increasing the scope of the collection, but on the other hand they require an augmented staff and cannot remove the necessity for selectively directed purchases. Partial relief in this direction has opportunely appeared through the generosity of the anonymous donor of the $100,000 Florence T. Baker Fund. The income from this Fund is available for the purchase of books and other printed material...