Word: sargents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Winthrop Sargent Prize, of $150, for the best essay relating to Shakspere, to Melvin L. Barnet '36, of Yonkers...
...lively, lean-faced, high-collared old New Englander is Porter Sargent, who as advertising and employment agent, adviser and critic, sits firmly astride the far-flung world of U. S. private secondary education. Although he has not willingly set foot in a school since, upon leaving Harvard in 1896, he taught a while at Cambridge's staid Browne & Nichols, Porter Sargent ranks today as the private school industry's No. 1 lay figure. As such, he annually delivers himself in Private Schools of a long and dogmatic preface on the worldwide State of Education, includes his sprightly...
Between the red-&-gold covers of Porter Sargent's famed catalog of 4,000 private schools, many an undecided parent seeks an educational niche for his offspring. Schoolmasters browse through it to get information about their competitors. But Private Schools' readership is by no means confined to these two classes. Wiseacres know that practically anybody can find something to amuse and instruct him in this fascinating volume, whose 20th Anniversary Edition was published in Boston last week...
These and other reflections, included in a volume which sells 100,000 copies at $6 apiece, emerge as regularly as the dogwood each spring from No. n Beacon Street, Boston. At that address is located Porter Sargent's crowded little office. There he, with an assistant and a half-dozen stenographers, besides publishing Private Schools, personally tells parents where to find schools, teachers where to find work, trustees where to find headmasters. He also places school advertising in magazines as well as in the rear of his yearly handbook...
...Valkyries" Wagner *Choruses with Orchestra from "Patience" (Sullivan) and Sea Chanties (McPhoe) Harvard Glee Club Chorus G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor *"Scheherazade," Third Movement Rimsky-Korsakov The Prince and the Princess *"Rienzi," Overture Wagner Selection, "The Lid's Off," Hasty Pudding Show of 1936 Cammann Newbury ,'37, E. R. Sargent, '36, Gaspar G. Bacon, Jr. '37 (Arr. by Leroy Anderson) Conducted by Leroy Anderson *"Voices of Spring," Waltzes Strauss *"Up the Street" Morse Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square