Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston's pink-cheeked Porter Sargent is the Westbrook Pegler of education. He envisions himself as a kind of public conscience to the profession, and succeeds at least in being its common scold. Each year, in revising his Handbook of Private Schools, he writes a new introduction, and usually finds something different to attack. Last week, with the 31st edition of his Handbook, he took up the evils of wealth...
...independent school, said Sargent, has never before been so dependent upon big donations from wealthy people. "The inference sometimes left to the student is that it behooves him to be loyal to the ideals and standards of his benefactors. Nor is it likely that in such institutions the manner in which the money was accumulated will be dwelt upon...
...Those girls swim like porpoises," a drenched MIT student said after the contest, praising the five Annex swimmers and their teammate from Sargent. Another blamed the close score on the confusion resulting from a bi-sexual meet. "Their caps were white and looked just like the ball," he claimed...
Herbert Barry III '52, Sargent Horwood '52, and John F. Pearson, Jr. '52, will be assistant managers of the squad for Saturday's contest. Barry is from Brookline and Straus Hall. He is a graduate of St. Paul's School. Pearson is from New York City, and Horwood from Cambridge...
...vote favored more conservative colors and styles with the exception of a red faille bolero and skirt Dior original in the cocktail dresses division. Modeling the winning combinations were Mary Frances Blakeslee '52; Susan Kunstadter, Sargent; Joan Wilson, Sargent; Peggy Crawford, Simmons; Jane Hauser, Boston University; and Joyce Dana, Tufts...