Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge received a letter from John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, charging that bituminous mine operators were breaking their wage contract with the union, and asking what the Government is going to do about it. Shortly afterward Secretary Hoover, Attorney General Sargent and President Green of the American Federation of Labor had long conferences at the White House...
...Ralph Sargent Bailey of Wollnston; Charles Allen Smart of Forest Hills...
...conference will be open to all members of the institutions represented. These are as follows: Boston University, Harvard, Radcliffe, Emerson College of Oratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sargent School, Tufts, Wellesley, Framingham Normal School, Gordon College, Northeastern, Newton Theological School, Wheaton, Brown, and the University of New Hampshire...
...Sargent was a great draughtsman and well equipped to champion, in a leveling age, the traditions of an imperious past. The Boston murals all treat classic subjects: Chiron teaching a very delicate Achilles how to handle a bow; Atlas stooping among the golden girls of the Hesperides; Hercules, with a billet the size of a railroad tie in his fist, fencing with the Hydra's ducking heads...
Said a super-critic: "If critics who have so carefully laid their round formal wreaths upon Sargent's tomb should discover in these murals some reminiscence of the art calendar, let them not suggest that 'Philosophy' might have been intended as the decoration for a magazine poem; that 'Science Measuring the Heavens While a Young Woman Makes Record' looks like a satire upon the modern Babbitt's indispensable stenographer. Such things are matters of opinion, and the only opinion which has not yet been given upon John Singer Sargent is that of posterity...