Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...informal reception was held Thursday night, and a collation served. John O. Sargent of the class of 1830, the oldest living graduate, read an original translation into English verse of the twenty-first ode of the first Book of Horace. Fifty new members were added to the club roll, bringing the total to about...
...Beaman, Addison Brown, ex Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain, Joseph H. Choate, Henry H. Crocker, Jr., Paul Dana, Secretary of the Treasury Charles S. Fairchild, Amos K. Fiske, Frederick G, Ireland, James T. Kilbreth, Charles F. McKim, Ogden Mills, Walter S. Mills, Peter B. Olney, Theodore Roosevelt, John O. Sargent, Edward Wetmore, president, Edward L. Parris, vice-president, and Nathaniel S. Smith, secretary, of the club. - New York Star...
...detailed explanation of Dr. Sargent's system would occupy much space, and would be foreign to our present purpose. The remarkable results of its adoption at Harvard can, however, be illustrated by a single group of facts. The measurements of each student are compiled into a resulting "total strength," which in the case of the man showing the best development among the students of 1880, was indicated by 675.2. This man was F. D. Jordan. The average total strength of the ten best men in that year was 665.2. In 1881, C. H. W. Foster, the highest on the list...
This year, for the first time, Dr. Sargent will open, at the Hemenway Gymnasium, a summer course of physical training, designed to supplement the Physical Training School for Teachers, which has been so successfully carried on in Cambridge for the last five years...
...design of the school is to qualify men and women to supply the demand for competent instructors in the Sargent system of examination and physical training. The present need is for intelligent organizers and leaders rather than skilful performers - for those who can arouse enthusiasm for health and development rather than for feats and display...