Word: bakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under this system, which has its roots in the Law School's case method as well as medicine's clinical method, each of today's 1,350 Business School students is probing into 500 cases a year. Material is drawn from a Baker Library stock of over 5,000 "active" studies of situations that have actually occurred in business, and before coming to class on each assignment, every student must put himself into the situation and come up with an appropriate decision. There is no right or wrong; it's the business thinking that counts, for after two years...
...wasn't until March 20, 1924 that the fund drive Dean Donham called for got underway. However, under the late William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, the campaign was unexpectedly concluded in little more than a month when the late George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, wrote the University offering $5,000,000 if he could "have the privilege of building the whole school...
...Alone Baker gave the School grounds as excellent as those of any other graduate school in the country, for his funds bought every permanent building that now stands across the river, including towered Baker Library. In 1925 he added an extra $1,000,000 to his gift when it appeared the original $5,000,000 was going to run out; and only last year an additional $500,000 was received from Baker's estate to keep facilities up to date...
...college-wide competition drew 89 entries. Louis W. Baker '50, won first and fourth prizes, while Jacques E. Levy '50, chairman of the CRIMSON Photographic Board took second prize. Lawrence R. Zeltlin '51, another of the CRIMSON's photographers won third prize and Summer I. Zacks '51, received the fifth award...
They couldn't get trains into the fourth floor of the Business School's Baker Library but they did get in almost everything else associated with locomotives...