Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pronouncing Professor George Pierce Baker '87, head of the 47 Workshop, a "prophet who is without honor in his own country" and otherwise scoring the University authorities for their laxness in providing Professor Baker with adequate equipment for carrying on his teaching, Hermann Hagedorn '07, prominent New York playwright and author, yesterday addressed a vigorous letter to the CRIMSON decrying the situation which he described as "incredible" and commending the paper heartily for its editorial of last Friday entitled "George Pierce Baker...
...Hagedorn, after recalling that the need for a drama building at the University was felt even 20 years ago, makes the statement that Professor Baker "has offered to raise the money himself, but the authorities at Harvard, evidently believing that such an effort on his part might divert funds which they desired to secure for other purposes, barred every effort...
...Harvard men interested in the future of American drama will endorse your editorial reproving the University authorities for their lassitude in supporting Professor Baker in the magnificent work which he has been doing at Harvard for thirty years for the advancement of the American stage. It appears to be another case of the prophet who is without honor in his own country and among his own people. All over the country for years the eyes of ambitious young men and women, who have sought expression through the drama, have turned to Professor Baker for inspiration and instruction. They have come...
...Twenty years ago, when I was a; Harvard. I remember Professor baker expressing the urgent need of a drama building, with adequate provision for producing plays, painting scenery, ex perimenting with lighting, etc. Ever since, he has been pleading for such a building, and pleading in vain. I know that he has offered to raise the money himself, but the authorities at Harvard, evidently believing that such an effort on his part might divert funds which they desired to secure for other purposes, barred every effort. Other universities have offered him everything that he wanted in the way of equipment...
Saturday night the University announced the program for the building of the new Graduate School of Business Administration which is to be erected with $4,000,000 of the $5,000,000 gift made to the Unviersity late in April by George Fisher Baker, a New York banker. The remaining $1,000,000 will be used chiefly for the development of the grounds...