http://www.mit81.com/baker/ 2026-08-25T12:08:16+00:00 http://www.mit81.com/baker/ http://www.mit81.com/baker/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=logo.png text/html 2022-12-14T15:09:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:commons_dining&rev=1671030587&do=diff Commons <http://tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_071/TECH_V071_S0133_P001.pdf> Sept 21, 1951 Baker Residents Protest Dining Overcrowding Like Topsy and inflation, lines at the Baker House dining hall have been growing and growing with each meal during the week. A total of 80 residents of Burton House have caused the bottleneck by signing up for commons meals at Baker House. Residents of Baker held a protest meeting last Wednesday night. text/html 2019-04-03T03:08:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:crowding&rev=1554260898&do=diff Crowding http://tech.mit.edu/V70/PDF/N34.pdf Oct 3 1950 Vacant Dorm Rooms Offer Barracks Men Better Conditions There are at present fifty-two vacant rooms in the undergraduate dormitories, twelve in the Everett Moore Baker House, and forty in Riverside. Because of the vacancies all students in Building 22 are being asked to move to permanent dormitories. The unusual number of vacancies is accounted for by the large number of men taken in by the fraternities this term and by the opening of th… text/html 2019-04-03T13:53:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:house_trivia&rev=1554299616&do=diff Baker House Trivia Did You Know? Baker House trivia... Memorial Drive is named in honor of those who died in World War I * Until 1922, Memorial Drive was called Charles River Road What is the name of Building W7 ? * The “SD” stamped on the room keys stood for text/html 2019-04-03T03:08:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:may_day_riot&rev=1554260898&do=diff May Day Riot (1955) [ not to be confused with the 1957 Tuition Riot ] 9 Students Arrested Sunday Night; Fire and Water Highlights Of Riot The Tech (May 3 1955) <http://tech.mit.edu/V75/PDF/N21.pdf> by Bill Daly '58 and Lee Holloway '58 In line with the recent trends toward May Day demonstrations and to celebrate the first National Loyalty Day, several hundred enthusiastic Techmen gathered together last Sunday evening and celebrated. text/html 2026-04-22T04:01:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:piano_drops&rev=1776830462&do=diff Piano Drops Winning nomination (and commentary) of the “Baker House Piano Drop” as the top-vote-getter of 150 objects picked to represent MIT over the entire 150-year sweep of the Institute's history: <http://museum.mit.edu/nom150/entries/1430> (looks like a dead link) <https://alum.mit.edu/slice/baker-piano-drop-leads-150-vote-countso-far> <https://news.mit.edu/2011/mit150-kickoff> “The Baker House Piano Drop is a celebration of the student spirit, where a (non-functioning) piano is drop… text/html 2019-04-03T03:08:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:showering_moating&rev=1554260898&do=diff Showering/Moating Bill Collins '65 writes: One of the “traditional events” on the 2nd Floor in Baker House among our group was the Moat — that body of water surrounding the chapel. Especially when I was Hall Chairman. We regularly baptized new colleagues to our group with a group kidnap of an unsuspecting Bakerite and group haul to the moat, sometimes just because or to let off steam or if he won too many games of Hearts which of course meant he was cheating or maybe the rites of passage for a… text/html 2019-04-03T03:08:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:snow_barrier_on_memorial_drive&rev=1554260898&do=diff Snow Barrier on Memorial Drive (1959) Baker Builds Block Snow HALTS Traffic The Tech (Tues march 17 1959) <http://tech.mit.edu/V79/PDF/N9.pdf> A barricade of snow graced Memorial Drive for twenty minutes around midnight, Thursday. About twenty-five men from Baker House contributed their labor to the construction of a three-foot wall of snow. The light traffic at the late hour was first slowed and then halted. After about twenty minutes a snow plow, summoned from fighting the natural snow b… text/html 2024-05-08T05:59:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:snow_in_the_2nd_floor_showers&rev=1715147979&do=diff Snow in 2nd Floor Showers (1968) Snow in Baker Fools Nation The Tech (Fri Jan 12 1968) <https://thetech.com/issues/87/57/pdf> By Mark Bolotin “In the second floor shower rooms at Baker House, they threw the windows wide open and turned the hot showers on fuLl blast. From the showers poured a thick plume of steam. From the open windows came a below-zero icy blast. The experiment was designed to determine what happens when one meets the other. text/html 2024-06-06T03:58:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:start&rev=1717646287&do=diff Baker Spirit Spirit, Events, and Trends Stuff about that hard-to-define thing called “Baker Spirit”. Detailed info about significant events. Background info on interesting trends. Baker House is a community. 350-plus really smart teenagers, with basically no time and (almost) unlimited money. Plus a building and a room assignments policy that causes the whole dorm to shuffle every year. Which results in… text/html 2019-04-03T03:08:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:the_mit_icicle_association&rev=1554260898&do=diff MIT Icicle Association (1960) Giant Icicle at Baker House Draws National Press Attention The Tech (1960-01-15) <http://tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_079/TECH_V079_S0314_P001.pdf> Following the nationwide publicity given to the Baker House icicle last week, an MIT Icicle Association has been formed, with chapters at other schools. The stated goal of the association, according to icicle grower Robert Ratner, is text/html 2019-04-03T03:08:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:tuition_riot&rev=1554260898&do=diff Tuition Riot (1957) [ not to be confused with the 1955 May Day Riot ] ---------- Ed Talley '59 writes... “In the spring of 1957 there was a student 'riot' in which some participants set up a burning barricade across Memorial Drive in front of Baker House to protest a hike in tuition and plans to expand graduate education at the expense of undergraduate education. This event contributed to the start of a campus police department in the fall of 1957 or 1958. text/html 2019-04-03T03:08:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.mit81.com/baker/doku.php?id=baker_spirit:twist_of_the_tool&rev=1554260899&do=diff The Twist of the Tool (1975) In 1975, Kirk and Spock beam down to MIT campus. There they meet some unusual characters: Coedda, The Beast, Godzilla, and The Evil Director! Twist of the Tool