Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best part of the paper and entitle it to serious consideration as an expression of undergraduate draughtsmanship. Since the Lampoon is the only publication we have that is open to the Fine Arts, it naturally attracts the best talent in the University. The portraits of Professor Kittredge, Professor Baker, H. T. Parker, Walter Hampden and other interpreters of the drama, the realistic studies of life in the gymnasium, and the seductive portrait of a pre-Raphaelite pet called Gladys cannot be impaired in value by the cryptic remarks placed under them, remarks which are preferable to the virtual spirit...
Harvard Lucky to Have Baker...
...know though", he continued, "you chaps at Harvard are unusually lucky with Professor Baker and his 47 Workshop. By the way I hear he hasn't been treated very well in regard to buildings, is that true...
...that is a shame. Why, I have always been a great supporter of college courses in dramatic writing. Before I ever came to this country I tried to persuade Oxford and Cambridge to adopt something of the sort. Mind you that was before I ever had heard of Professor Baker. The critics laughed at me and Punch published a rather humiliating but very amusing cartoon of Bernard Shaw. Barrie, and other well-known playwrights all sitting in front of a blackboard at school. Then when I came over here you can imagine my satisfaction in finding something of the sort...
...glad that a false rumor has given us an opportunity of saying these things, and of expressing to Professor Baker the gratitude and admiration of his many Harvard friends. We wish him joy of his sabbatical leave, and after that a new and greater Workshop--at Harvard...