Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University has outstripped all others in the direction of original student composition. While its series of revivals has been less remarkable than those of several other universities, its playwriting activity, under the unusually able direction of Georgo Pierce Baker, has been unique. Professor Baker offers a two-year course in dramatic composition, the personnel of the class being decided by a competition of original play manuscripts. In connection with the study of the composition and , the actual writing of plays, there has developed the 'Forty-seven Workshop' (which takes it name from the number of the course), a dramatic...
Professor A. A. Berle '13, of Columbia University, will talk to the Business School Club of Harvard tomorrow evening at 7.15 o'clock on the subject, "The Influence of the Corporation on American Business." The lecture will be in Room 101 of the Baker Library...
...most modest man, Mr. Baker had discouraged all efforts to recognize his services in this fashion. Since last September the medal had been waiting for him but, until last week, he kept out of Washington to avoid its acceptance...
Secretary of War Good pinned on the medal. Mr. Baker made one last wriggle of modesty by saying: "I deeply appreciate the honor. . . . However, I do not consider that I am personally being decorated but feel rather that the decoration is being conferred upon me as a representative of the War Department...
After the ceremony, in burst some belated cameramen who demanded and obtained a second performance. Next came the cinema cameramen, and after them the movietone men. At the last, Mr. Baker protested. "There'll be no sound out of me." Secretary Good started for the door, echoing: "There'll be no sound out of me!" General Summerall agreed to reread the citation, however, and once more Mr. Baker, mum and miserable, was declared "of inestimable value...