Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, staunch Critic Smith laid about the field with renewed energy. He had kind words for some-Composer Benjamin Britten, Conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent. But he found the acoustics of the new hall built for the Festival of Britain "harsh" and "unlovely. One felt like rushing out to seek the relative quiet of Waterloo Station." Last week, while Britons raged, he wound up his four-week critical series with a sermon...
...first two days of this week's P.B.H. blood collection had 356 Harvard, Radcliffe, Lesley, and Sargent students bleeding in Memorial Hall. Twenty were rejected yesterday for physical reasons. There are about 750 donors scheduled for the rest of the week...
Died. Porter Sargent, 78, Boston's Brooklyn-born, pleasantly eccentric critic of education, who poked at educators' weak spots in his annual Handbook of Private Schools; after an operation; in Boston. In his hit-or-miss way, he denounced snobbery, prudishness, convention, academism, alumni influence, regimentation, kept his scholastic audience-"scared prostitutes, pimps and panderers" -always amused, often edified. He thought Alma Mater in general was a "flatulent old bawd," said of his own in particular: "Harvard practically ruined...
Elsewhere, Sargent states: "In the name of promoting a "Free Society," Harvard is making changed which undoubtedly carry out the intents of the dominant man on the Corporation. Under the circumstances, going to Harvard will mean only the bare essential of going to classes...
...Sargent taught at Harvard early in his career, later working under a grant. Author of many books and articles, with education as the main subject, he was best known for his listings of private schools, summer camps, and the attractions of New England...