Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Workshop" I was at first amazed and disappointed to find its facilities so antiquated and inadequate. After two years of world as stage hand and actor, however, I realize that the "47 Workshop" is not a place, or equipment, or even an organization, but one man--Professor G. P. Baker. So inspiring and persistent is his enthusiasm that not even obvious non-cooperation can check his efforts. He will go on anyway...
Even Ethel Barrymore is worked up over last week's false report that Professor George Pierce Baker '87 of 47 Workshop fame was going to leave Harvard due to the failure of the University authorities to provide proper equipment...
Yesterday when interviewed in her. Boston hotel Miss Barrymore talked excitedly of the 47 Workshop and its head. "I think that the discontinuance of Professor Baker's work for even a single year would be too terrible", she stated emphatically to the reporter as soon as she learned he was from the CRIMSON. "Tell me", she queried, "is it true that as great a university as Harvard is really neglecting one of the foremost authorities on the drama in this country...
...Professor Baker has been a pioneer in the field of dramatic teaching. All over the country, in every field of dramatic production, men who have felt his influence are working today bringing American drama to a higher level than it has ever reached before. It seems incredible that, when all the reward that such a man asks is to be given equipment so that he may do better work, that equipment should be withheld from him. "Hermann Hagedorn...
Professor E. K. Rand '94 lectured at the Summer Session of the University of California for six weeks. In the Latin Department he lectured on Ovid and in the Historical on Classical Culture. In company with Professors G. P. Baker '87, G. D. Birkoff '05, A. N. Holcombe, E. G. Boring, J. B. Conant '14, and Mrs. G. P. Baker, formerly acting Dean of Radcliffe College, he returned to Cambridge via Alaska and the Canadian Pacific Railroad. On July 17th Professor Rand and his colleagues mentioned above, who were also lecturing at the University of California, were the guests...