Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland, Ohio, received the Susan Anthony Potter prize for his thesis in the field of comparative literature. Two other essays received prizes, that of J. A. Cohen '24, of Fall River, the Bennett prize in political science, and that of B. McK. Henry '24, of Rosemont, Pa., the Winthrop Sargent prize for the best essay relating to Shakespeare or his work...
...Author. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, though born in Englewood, N. J., can scarcely be called an American writer. She is thought of as one, but with less reason than in the cases of other illustrious emigrants - Edith Wharton and John Singer Sargent, for example. Her nine years of childhood in the U. S. were watched over by a governess before she went to live in France and England. Since then, 1882, she has seldom returned and never for long, though her many novels have reached the world through American publishers. Her home is in Oxfordshire ; her husband, Basil de Selincourt...
...Sargent was of Maine Puritan stock. His bodily vigor and passion for exercise revealed themselves during his school days. As a lad of 20, he was invited to direct the gymnasium of Bowdoin College. He accepted, sat to a tutor when not teaching the Bowdoinians to flex their limbs, became a Freshman himself. That was in 1871. The next year, Yale College, awakening to the new movement for physical education, sent for Sargent. Without interrupting his studies at Bowdoin, he supervised both the Yale and Bowdoin gymnasia for three years. In 1875, he was graduated by Bowdoin, entered the Yale...
...when the human body was not thought a wholly fitting topic for conversation, a day when athletes "trained" on beer and cigars, young Sargent dared announce that no two physiques have the same flaws, that each should be made the object of close scrutiny and the subject of carefully calculated exercises. To him it was obvious that running a mile or otherwise expending energy wholesale, would not strengthen a weak neck or flabby arms so fast as studied exertion of the neck muscles or of the biceps. He invented ingenious strength and endurance tests, opened a gymnasium in Manhattan...
Died. Dudley Allen Sargent. 75, "apostle of exercise for everybody"; at Peterboro, N. H. (see Page...