Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Fitch writes of the "physical development and moral discipline" of military training such as will be offered by the Harvard Regiment. Dr. Sargent declares emphatically that military training yields inadequate and unbalanced results in physical development, and President-Emeritus Charles Eliot presumedly voices the American democratic feeling as to the "moral discipline" when he objects that we do not desire to teach boys and young men the "implicit obedience" motif, rather we desire them to think and act for themselves as men, not as units in a machine. Is not the regimentation of men into machines the very thing...
...Sargent Prize of $100 is offered for the best material translation of a lyric poem by Horace, to be selected each year by the Department of Classics. It closes...
...another column is printed an article by Dr. Sargent emphasizing the fact that physical fitness is of far greater importance in the movement toward preparedness than is military drill. Granted; but Dr. Sargent goes on to minimize the value of a university battalion on the ground that students' time might better be employed either on the athletic field or in the State Militia. What about those men who do not participate in athletics and who are not members of the militia, yet who might be induced to join such an organization as is proposed for the University...
...this seems all the more reason for establishing a University battalion to see if we cannot more nearly approach that degree of efficiency which will satisfy the General Staff. And since, in addition to a sound physique and a knowledge of chemistry, emphasized by Dr. Sargent, it is necessary for an efficient officer to be versed in drill regulations, why not supplement our other training by work in the University Battalion...
...Kreger '16, Exeter; C. C. Lnud '16, Country Day; H. H. Meyer, Jr. 1L., Middlesex; H. S. Middendorf '16, Worcester Academy; J. W. Middendorf '16, Worcester Academy; D. P. Morgan '16, Middlesex; K. B. G. Parson '16, Hope Street High (Providence); L. Salstonstall 2L., Noble's; L. M. Sargent '16, Stone; C. E. Schall '16, St. Paul's; T. E. Stebbins '17, Pomfret; E. W. Soucy '16, Cambridge Latin; J. Talcott '16, Cloyne School (Newport...