Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following report to the President by Dean Wallace B. Donham summarizes the work done at the Graduate School of Business Administration under the George F. Baker Foundation during the academic year...
...fared well. Starting in 1908, with an underwriting of $15,000 a year for five years, it has at the close of this 20-year period an endowment and income from tuition sufficient to insure the operation of the School without deficit, and, in the George F. Baker Foundation, a physical equipment probably excelled by no university department in its adjustment of buildings and land to educational needs. These resources could not have been attained, however, had it not been for the success with which its educational and scientific work has been carried on. In its total picture the Faculty...
Nevertheless, the School's needs continue great. Many things are wrong or undeveloped in the School. The Baker Library is inadequately endowed and has large unsolved problems ahead. The research of the School, by which its present standing has been built up and upon the continuance of which the maintenance of these standards wholly depends, is still subject to the risks of annual contributions from a shifting group of business men and industries. The years ahead are full of dangers as well as opportunities, but therein lies the interest in the School's future...
...Baker Library...
...McBride classified Chairman Wickersham and Commissioner Newton Diehl Baker as men who did not "favor Prohibition," but who were for enforcement. Other observers generally believed that the commission stood, in advance, six-to-four for Prohibition, with one member uncertain...