Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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DEDICATIO ALPH JACKSON BAKER is a Pennsylvanian by birth and training. He went to Swarth- moreiCollege and then to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he received the LL.B. degree in 1911. After Law School, Baker taught for three years at the Pennsylvania Law School. Then he began an extensive period in active practice. He was partner in a firm in Harrisburg, Penn- sylvania, where he did much work in the fields of corporations, interstate commerce, and trusts. With his prac- tice, though, he found time for schol- He became a member of the Ameri- can Law Institute, and soon was asked to be an advisor for the preparation of the Restatement of Trusts, for which Professor Austin W. Scott was the Reporter. arly work. At meetings of the Trusts Advisors, it was the common experience that after all the others had felt that they had covered cz problem rather fully and adequately, Ralph Baker would begin to ask questions. One question would follow an- other, and gaps in the analysis and treatment would be disclosed. Baker did not always have the answers, but he could ask many times as many questions as any of the others. ln 1932, Baker gave up his successful prac- tice and began his career of twenty-six years a member of the Harvard Law School Faculty. Dur- ing this period he has regularly taught Corpora- tions and Trusts. His courses have not been places where ground was covered. But they have been a remarkable educational experience, showing one student generation after another how much there is left in a problem after others have given it a thorough squeeze. By exhausting a handful of cases, Baker could teach a whole course. lt has been a fascinating experience for many students, not likely to be duplicated by many other teachers. Slight of build, quiet of speech, penetrating of mind, Ralph Baker has been a unique and great teacher. His colleagues and students look forward to his continued scholarly work.