Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain," says Dr. O. E. Baker, the distinguished economist of the United States Department of Agriculture, "that if the population of the United States continues to increase for more than another century as it has during the past century, there is no means by which the present standard of living can be maintained, except by importation of foodstuffs from other lands,--which will need their foodstuffs even more than we. And looking forward 200 or 300 years, which is a shorter span of time than that elapsed since the settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth, it seems necessary to recognize...
...lament of Mr. Walter Prichard Eaton which is reprinted in these columns is but a formal expression of feeling shared by many Harvard men. Professor Baker has gone and as long as his work continues to be a force in the modern American theatre--and that it is a force Mr. Eaton has ably proved in the remainder of his article--Harvard must be content to berate herself for her own stupidity. Every achievement of the Yale Theatre is an emblem of Harvard's negligence...
When Professor Baker left the University in 1924 the CRIMSON then "extended to Yale its congratulations not only for securing a man of such talents, but also for possessing governing authorities broad-minded enough to look at the drama in its proper light and handsomely to provide for its instruction." Those sentiments are still valid; each year will necessitate further congratulations--and further regrets...
...their place today, have indeed taken it, in the creative artistic life of America. This, I think, is a boon to America, and a deuced advance in college education. For that reason I am, as a graduate of Harvard, all the more grieved that my own university, where Professor Baker started the whole movement, has been the one ranking institution to repudiate it, and is now permitting Yale, North Carolina, Iowa, California, and so on, to influence the practical theatre arts of today, while Harvard goes happily back to a philological study of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher...
...York the next day, Saturday, April 23, Coach Mitchell's charges will close their trip with a game with Columbia at Baker's Field...