At Harvard

"George Pierce Baker, Master of Dramatic Arts, stand." Thus parodying the formula of commencement exercises, spoke LeBaron R. Briggs, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University. Prof. Baker, founder of the 47 Workshop, famed dramatic school, stood. Around him sat old friends-actors, stage hands, scene painters, electricians, musicians, prompters, auditors, graduates of his course. They had come to hear him express his regret that he was, of his own choice, leaving them, going away to start a dramatic school at Yale, financed by the $1,000,000 Harkness fund (TIME, Dec. 8). They had just given him a farewell dinner; now they waited for him to give them a farewell benefit performance, free.

Leaning against a grand piano, Prof. Baker thanked them.