Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current number of the Illustrated is thoroughly representative of the present state of mind of Harvard. The dominant note throughout, from the very excellent cover design to the end of Dr. Sargent's article, hidden away among the advertisements, is preparation for war. The few normal activities of College life worth recording, such as the taking of the Senior picture and the election of the hockey captain, are relegated to inconspicuous back pages, just as they are kept far in the back of the undergraduate mind. It is unfortunate, however, that such irrelevant pictures of those of the Yale crew...
...Sargent's article itself is a particularly timely reminder that not the whole of preparedness lies in teaching men to present arms and form fours, or even to dig trenches and shoot accurately. As Dr. Sargent points out, if men are to serve and not handicap the army, they must be physically fit to stand up under the strain of first-line service; and participation in athletics is the best way to keep fit. The case of those physically unfit to serve--75 percent. of the student body, says Dr. Sargent--is even more serious. However...
Besides his gifts of the water color "Bridle Path Tahita," the work of John LaFarge, Whistler's "Sunday at Domberg" and the new Sargent painting entitled "Lake O'Hara," Mr. Bettens has donated to the Fogg Museum an unfinished picture by J. Singleton Copley, 1737-1815, R.A. It is entitled "Monmouth Before James II," and portrays the conspirator at the court of the king refusing to reveal the name of his accomplices...
...exercises are conducted at the Hemenway Gymnasium on the adjoining grounds, in the lecture halls on the University, and at the Sargent Gymnasium, under the direction of Dr. D. A. Sargent...
From Edward Detraz Bettens '73 (who recently presented to the Museum John Sargent's oil pointing of "Lake O'Hara") a watercolor, "Bridle Path, Tahita," by John La Farge; and "Sunday at Domberg," a watercolor by James McNeill Whistler...