George F. Baker

George F. Baker, friend and benefactor of the College, died at his home at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., May 2at the age of 92. Through the munificence of Mr. Baker the Baker Memorial Library was built in memory of his uncle, Fisher Ames Baker '59, reaching completion at a cost of more than a million dollars in 1928. In 1929 he made a gift of almost equal proportion to the College to endow the library.

In bestowing upon Mr. Baker the LL.D. degree from the College in 1927, President Hopkins said: "Dean of your profession and eminent among those who wield large power with sense of responsibility for the public good, exemplar of the fact that the imagination of the poet and the spirit of the prophet may be demonstrated in material deeds as well as in inspired words, constructive builder and steadfast supporter of gigantic enterprises which make for a people's strength, trustee of a great university, patron of art, generous benefactor of institutions of higher learning, in admiring respect for your accomplishments and in grateful appreciation for your friendliness, Dartmouth welcomes you into the fellowship of which your respected uncle was long a member, and confers upon you its honorary degree, the Doctorate of Laws."