Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...award of the medal is made at irregular intervals to men who have done conspicuous service in bringing into the United States useful and valuable plants. In a letter which accompanied the medal, the Council of the American Genetic Association referred to Dr. Sargent as "easily the outstanding leader in the world of plant introduction...
Professor C. S. Sargent '02, director of the Arnold Arboretum, has been awarded the Frank N. Meyer Agricultural Medal by the American Genetic Association "for distinguished services in the field of foreign plant introduction...
...medal, which had been sent to the University to be bestowed upon Dr. Sargent was presented to him yesterday by President Lowell at a luncheon given by Dr. Sargent for the Overseers' committee on the Arnold Arboretum. This committee is engaged in raising funds to enable the Arboretum to carry on its work in the future...
...critic, spoke for the artists. He said that America has done more in architecture than in any other art. Despite that fact, architects are not famous. Buildings are not signed. Thus, men know of Whistler but not of Richardson who did the Trinity Church at Boston. Thus men know Sargent, but not McKim who did the Pennsylvania station in New York. Other great architects: Bulfinch, Latrobe, McComb, Pope, Platt, Hunt, French...
...themselves in favor of a new chapel, as the highest expression of the spirit which actuated the men in the World War." Among the members of this committee who signed its report are: President Eliot. General Leonard Wood, M. D., '84, Bishop C. H. Brent, H. '13, J. S. Sargent, H. '16, R. W. Child '03, F. D. Roosevelt '04, Theodore Roosevelt '09, and Hanford MacNider...