Prof. Baker Sails From France Today

Professor G. P. Baker '87, of the Department of English, will sail this morning for New York from Cherbourg. Since October Professor Baker has been in France where he has given a course of lectures at the University of Parts on "The Development of English Tragedy and Comedy between 1590 and 1800." After completing his lectures at the University of Paris, he travelled through the French province. speaking before the students of the Universities of Nancy, Dijon, Lyons, Grenoble, Aix, Marseilles, Montpellier, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Rennes, Caen and Lille.

His last course was given at the Sorbonne. On the occasion of his final lecture, Professor Baker was given an ovation. He reviewed the main points and objects of his previous lectures. dwelling particularly upon the relations between farce and drama as pertaining to the history of the English stage. The future of the English drama, he declared, rests in bringing the play to the position of responding to the demands of the great thinking and feeling classes that have been educated in the secondary schools.

The studious assemblies that have attended the course have been much impressed by Professor Baker's free manner of presenting the great period of English literature, and particularly by his clear and measured diction.