Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of wartime havoc among the prep schools was drawn last week in the new 1942-43 Handbook of Private Schools (Sargent; $6). In this 27th edition of his notably outspoken work, peppery Editor Porter Sargent reported heavy damage...
...usual, Editor Sargent sums up his study of the private schools in no uncertain terms: "Each war brings out the weaknesses . . . of our educational system. . . . Opposition to private schools based on the claim that they are not democratic. . . . More careful investigation . . . of our social system has disclosed . . . that not only do men not have equal opportunities in this great democracy, but that there is a well established caste system, in the toils of which we have been so closely enmeshed that we have been unable to see it. . . . The ideals and aims of some of the schools must change...
Chairman of the wives' club is Mrs. John Pfenner, who was not only a charter member but one of the greatest contributors to the club's development. She is assisted by three faculty wives who have offered to help with the club activities, Mrs. Sargent Kennedy, Mrs. Frederick B. Doknatel and Mrs. Charles H. Taylor...
Missing at Sea. Lieut. Thomas Sargent La Farge, 38, of the Coast Guard Reserve, mural painter, grandson of the late Painter John La Farge, cousin of Writer Oliver La Farge; somewhere in the Atlantic. He was skipper of the Coast Guard cutter Natsek, presumed by the Navy to be lost after being unheard of for "several weeks...
Darwin, suspicious of a message from an outfit given up as lost for two months, radioed: "Is Jack Sargent there...