Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing demurely a block beyond the Law School, where Everett Street runs into Massachusetts Avenue, Sargent College of Physical Education for Women has been turning out energetic young gym instructresses for 66 years. From its modest origin in 1881, when Dr. Dudley A. Sargent opened a "Sanatory Gymnasium" on Church Street, Sargent has progressed steadily to a broad and varied curriculum, with a student body of 500. In 1904, the school moved from Church Street to the present site, and slipped under the wing of Boston University in 1929, where it has been ever since...
...Most Sargent girls are easterners, but some come from as far away as China and Cuba. When a freshman arrives, she is gently introduced to the Sargent way of life, and to Cambridge, which, an official handbook informs her, is "in the midst of New England's beauty, charm and intrigue." "If history interests you," the handbook continues, "visit Harvard Yard." Once acclimated, Sargent freshmen begin a four-year program which consists mostly of training in physical education and therapy, with a scattering of fundamental academic courses...
...involved Student Government, and have organizations ranging from the YWCA to a Drum and Bugle Corps. They also possess a Retummoe Club (Retummoe is "commuter" spelled backwards) for social gatherings. In the Retummoe Room, the girls may smoke, "if done with discretion." However, Regulation G warns that "Sargent College is definitely opposed to the use of alcoholic beverages." A girl who drinks on the sly may easily be expelled. In the months of June and September, students adjourn to the college camp in Peterborough, New Hampshire, or soccer, hockey, lacrosse, speedball, and other outdoor activities...
...same time, Album officials uttered their third semestrial plea for all delinquent members of the Classes of 1947 and 1948 to have their formal photographs taken (1) at Lowell House today, or (2) at the Sargent Studio in Boston; or else to send a suitable print already in hand to the Album offices at 14 Plympton Street...
Simultaneously, Sargent Kennedy, '28, registrar, announced that all College students will be able to pocket their "little white slips" by appearing in Memorial Hall today. The A's through the K's will be welcome from 11 to 1 o'clock, all others from 2 to 4 o'clock...