Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Classes in the Harvard Business School will be suspended at least during the afternoon of the funeral of George F. Baker, founder of the Business School who died Saturday night, it was learned yesterday. The funeral will probably be held Tuesday noon in New York...
...Donham, dean of the School, and one or two others will represent the institution at the funeral. Dean Donham yesterday said of George F. Baker: "We are under the most extreme personal obligation to Mr. Baker, and have a very definite appreciation of the gifts he made and the way he made them. The foundation on which the School rests is the $5,000,000 he gave...
...death of George F. Baker Harvard has lost one of its greatest benefactors, and the Business School has lost its patron. Though not a college man himself, Mr. Baker always took a keen interest in the educational world, and his gifts to Harvard have been among his largest...
Looked at from another point of view, Mr. Baker's death means the passing of one of the greatest figures in the economic development of the United States. He belonged to that generation of financiers and business men whose peculiar and unique privilege it was to witness and aid in the greatest economic expansion the world has ever seen. Their methods and outlook were necessarily a product of the environment in which they built, and it is extremely unlikely that any such conditions will ever again be approximated. Mr. Baker was one of the last of the economic pioneers whose...
...vacation the Russian bell originally intended for the Lowell House Tower and which on arrival proved to be out of tune with the rest of the matched set of 18 was transported to the Business School, where it is now in process of installation in the lower of the Baker Memorial Library. When the installation is completed the new Russian bell will replace the old one which formerly was heard on the hour and half-hour across the Charles. The old bell, however, will not be removed from the tower, however, according to officials of the School, since there...