Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...west of the 100th meridian better than anyone . . . knew even women-even the American woman, even the New York woman, Which is saying much." Here also came the young President Roosevelt, "of infinite dash and originality," glad of admittance. Here Richardson, the architect; Saint-Gaudens, the sculptor; LaFarge and Sargent, the painters. Here also Senator Lodge, the learned historian, man of letters in the old New England tradition...
...name-drawing began, patrons from many a state stood tensely by to learn their luck. Out came the first name: Albert Snook, of Aurora, Ill., publisher of The Aurora Beacon-News. Without hesitation, Mr. Snook marched to John Singer Sargent's canvas, The Chess Game, and claimed...
Coletti started work as a stone cutter for Boston architects. He became an expert in the creation of architectural ornament and worked with John Singer Sargent in connection with the decoration of the rotunda of the Museum of Fine Arts. Later he came to the University and received the degree of A.A. in February, 1924. While here Mr. Coletti designed and produced a number of University medals, among them the Gold Medal shortly to be awarded in the Harvard Advertising Competition founded by Edward...
...four tutors will be P. R. Doolin '20, who is also a fourth year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and who studied at Paris for part of his undergraduate career; R. D. Howard; who graduated last June with high honors; Daniel Sargent '13, author of several books of poetry, and who assisted Professor Barrett Wendell in much of his later work, notably his "Traditions of European Literature"; and E. A. Whitney, '17 a tutor in field of History for the past five years...
...This and following quotations are excerpts from Sargent's handbook, American Private Schools...