Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earliest pieces of temperance propaganda in the "History of Liquor" collection of the Baker Library is the above time-table of the Dead River Grand Trunk Railway, which was printed by R. H. McDonald and Company of New York City about...
President Dunster once complained that, in addition to doing all the teaching himself, he had to be the students' steward, "and to direct their brewer, baker, buttler, cook, how to proportion their commons." But he soon had help in this, and in the teaching, too; for the best men in the class of 1642 were induced to stay on as resident bachelors and tutors until they took their master's degree. Among this first crop of tutors was the man after whom Downing Street, London, was named. George Downing had all his education in Harvard College; and as we find...
Docket number 26 is the Birkenhead Club (Kirkpatrick, Rinehart) versus the Blackstone Club (Bishop, Andrews). Meeting at 1590 Massachusetts Avenue with E. P. Baker 3L as chief justice...
...interest in connection with the present stock market decline is a book in the Baker Library of the Business School which deals with the first big stock inflation in history. It is called "He Groote, Tafereel der Dwaasheid" (The Great Picture of Foolishness) and is a collection of Dutch cartoons and satires on the speculative craze that resulted in John Law's Mississippi Company on the Continent and the South Sea Bubble in England. The book was stated on the title page to be "Printed as a Warning for Posterity, in the fatal year, of many Follies Among the Wise...
...Memorial Quadrangle was given by Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness. There is a William L. Harkness Hall. And sadly do Harvard men recall that day in December, 1924, when a University Theatre was given to Yale by Edward Stephen Harkness, Yale '97. For, immediately, Professor George Pierce Baker of the famed Harvard 47 (theatre) Workshop was invited to the Yale faculty of Fine Arts to teach dramatics with the Harkness theatre as laboratory. Immediately, Prof. Baker accepted...