Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sargent claimed the large number of Prep school tutees was due largely to personal wealth. "A great many have no interest in getting a college education but go through the four years just to please their parents, who regard college in the same light as a finishing school," he says...
...years an adviser to parents of prep school children, Porter Sargent '96 undertook yesterday to explain the reason for the large percentage of prep school cram patrons...
James H. Matinband '40 won the John Osborne Sargent prize of $200 for the best metrical translation into English of a lyric poem of Horace. The Sales prize of $60 was given to Karl T. Soule, Jr. '39 for his translation into Spanish of a passage from "Two Years Before the Mast," by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Thomas V. Healey '40 and Robert E. Tucker '41 received honorable mention...
...Commencement," concluded Porter Sargent, "has become a large scale piece of advertising, for prestige and money. . . . Commencements at the older universities are competitive as to spectacular features, speakers who will secure the headlines. and finally in the result of it all, the announcement of funds. ... If these college commencements were reduced to their former modest simplicity, if representatives of great financial houses and industries were to play a lesser role, the annual increment would probably fall...
...Sargent thisyear found his 1,190-page handbook too small to contain his views, decided to restrict his handbook to education and publish a separate 400-page volume of general comment-Human Affairs...