Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard the strains of a Bach fugue issuing forth behind the students of Harvard University as they departed from the opening service of Harvard's 289th year. Prompt to start publication, the Crimson launched an early editorial at Harvard authorities for their "polished neglect" of Prof. George Pierce Baker, long the director of the 47 Wordshop (dramatics). The Workshop will be closed this year, its quarters having been reconverted for dormitory use. For Prof. Baker this means a sabbatical...
...further proof of the indignant feeling aroused among Harvard men by the constant antagonism of the University authorities to the work of Professor George Pierce Baker, the CRIMSON gladly reprints in full an editorial from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin of Thursday, October...
...gossip, Report," turns out, as often before, not to "be an honest woman of her word." Professor Baker has no present intention of transferring either himself or the 47 Workshop to Columbia. It is true that Professor Baker is to enjoy a long-deferred and well-earned year of rest, and that the 47 Workshop is temporarily shopless, owing to the transformation of Massachusetts Hall into a dormitory. But Professor Baker takes leave of his Cambridge friends "with pleasant anticipation of renewed work together," and it is unbelievable that in this era of building and expansion he should not, upon...
...rumor has played us false, she has perhaps done us a good turn. We are too prone to take our good things for granted. We have enjoyed Professor Baker as one enjoys good health or the other bounties of nature, without ever quite realizing what life would be without him. In the future we are going to be more conscious of our good fortune, more grateful for it, and more disposed to earn it. Professor Baker has been disinterestedly devoted to the University, and after many years of untiring and creative labor has organized a method of teaching and research...
Then gasping with astonishment and continuing before the reporter could reply, Miss Barrymore launched into a eulogy of Professor Baker. "Tell them I can not express how strong my support and admiration of Professor Baker is", was her parting remark as she hurried away in a taxi for the afternoon performance of "The Second Mrs. Tanquery...