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...announcing the five million dollar gift from Mr. George F. Baker, Bishop William Lawrence '71 made public yesterday the following letter from the New York financier...
...gift of $5,000,000 to Harvard University by Mr. George F. Baker of New York for the construction of new buildings for the Graduate School of Business Administration is as distinctive in the annals of American education as are the efforts of the School itself. After an apprenticeship of sixteen years, during which the Harvard Business School has been an outstanding influence in business education, it has been accorded recognition by one of the country's foremost business men. It has passed its most difficult test, and has become the subject of an enlightened interest, not only because...
...University has received from Mr. George Fisher Baker of New York a gift of $5,000,000 as a permanent foundation for the Graduate School of Business Administration. The gift was made on April 23 but was only announced yesterday by Bishop Lawrence, chairman of the committee in charge of the present drive...
...Baker's gift, the second largest lump sum which the University has ever received, is unique in the annals of American education. Never before has a gift even a fraction as large been made to any institution to be used in its work of business training. As far as is known, the donor has not been in Cambridge recently and has never inspected the present facilities of the Business School...
...inspired the reviewer to such discursiveness. The balance of learning and originality is admirably struck by it, and its observations have a considerable importance. Another essay, Mr. La Farge's "The Incompleat Angler", is an example of the same class. Mr. La Farge writes refreshingly and well, with a gift for impressions and a skill of style which are unusual. "For reflection (he says) is to the true, inward charm of fishing as the vague ideas that float half-recorded through one's brain when good music is playing are to that music itself"--an admirable simile...