Word: baker
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Read, the runner-up, had triumphed over P. Sanborn of the B. A. A. M. P. Baker '22 won the Class A tournament last month...
Last week in Detroit, Myles Baker of Boston met W. Palmer Dixon of New York in the finals of the national amateur squash racquets tournament. Mr. Dixon was defending his title. The match was hotly contested but as it progressed spectators realized that Mr. Baker would soon be the new champion. What seemed to be the last point was played; Mr. Baker seemed to have won it. "Let!" called the referee, thereby giving Mr. Dixon an opportunity to replay the point. The falling title-holder smiled; displayed excellent sportsmanship by crying, "No let!" rushed across the court to congratulate...
...American Drama can Contribute to American Progress" will be discussed by Professor G. P. Baker '87 at the Old South Meeting House Forum on Sunday afternoon at 3:15 o'clock. Music will be furnished by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra...
Professor Baker is the director of the University Theatre at Yale but was formerly the director of the 47 Workshop at the University, which he founded and developed. Before devoting himself to the study of the drama he was an instructor there in three different fields, English, forensics, and History. He carries the degree of Litt. D. from Alleghany College and ten years ago was for one winter Hyde Lecturer at the Sorbonne in Paris. Professor Baker is the author of several books including the previously unpublished correspondence of David Garrick...
...speaking of the Drama and its influences on American progress Professor Baker is expected to bring out much of the discussion which figured recently in the New Haven Conference on Affairs of the Theatre, which he attended. This meeting was also attended by leaders of the Little Theatre movement and others from all over the country...