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Word: baker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatrical organization in the United States. Only once before in its 53 years of existence has it opened its doors to the public. The production next week has been directed by B. T. Churchill, who was one of the auditors for the old 47 Workshop at Harvard under Professor Baker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophocles' "Electra" to be Played | 3/9/1929 | See Source »

Pleasure Bound. The time-worn criticism that girls are overstressed and underdressed in the modern revue is met by the Messrs. Shubert in their latest effort. A girl-show which also brings forth Phil Baker, Jack Pearl, Shaw & Lee and Fred Hillebrand, may be accounted a balanced production. Moreover, besides all the homebred curves and complexions, there is a spick-and-Spanish dancer named Rosita Moreno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard an adaptation of the Oxford "inner, college" idea (TIME, Jan. 7). Sneered the Lampoon: "Now that Harkness has shelled a sufficient number of berries we have got to put on our glad rags and make him an A. M. or a LL. D., the way we did Baker [Tycoon George Fisher Baker built Harvard's Business School in 1924, was given a kudo Ph. D.]. Becoming a Ph. D. is the same kind of business as getting yourself created a movie star, if you get what we mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harkness Lampooned | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Harkness gift to Yale which took away from Harvard the latter's famed 47 workshop, a playwriting part of the Fine Arts College embodied in Professor George Pierce Baker. Now another Harkness gift, declined by Yale, is going to refashion Harvard's most ancient and central aspect, oldtime Harvard College, to which the university's graduate schools are comparatively recent and traditionally minor adjuncts. Beneath the Lampoon's youthful vulgarity and ink-intoxicated rudeness there seemed to be a note of genuine bitterness which, since Harvard men are often sad, may have adumbrated some portion of adult Harvard sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harkness Lampooned | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...defeated C. Cauman '29, 6-15, 15-11, 15-13, 15-11; C. H. Kawakami '30 defeated Cross (W), 4-15, 15-11, 15-13, 15-12; J. C. Potter '30 defeated Whitney (W), 10-15, 11-15, 18-16, 15-13, 15-10; P. H. Rhinelander '29 defeated Baker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Team Downs Harvard Racquetmen in Semi-Finals of National Tourney--Team B Wins Massachusetts Title | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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