Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal aid is necessary for United States secondary schools to solve the problems which confront them, Cyril G. Sargent, assistant professor of Education told the CRIMSON yesterday. Sargent is an expert in secondary school education at the Graduate School of Education...
However, when federal aid comes it should be restricted to public schools, Sargent feels. "It is a logical continuation of the principle of separation of church and state. We fought it out on the state level in the 1840's. Separation of church and state was valid then on a national basis." He noted that American society needs some force such as public schools which help to unify its various economic, social, and religious groupings...
Signature cards will turn up in College registration envelopes for the first time, on Monday, February 7, Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 announced yesterday. The move is designed to enforce a new Administrative Board ruling that "all students must register personally...
...Harvard Corporation (the five-man board which appoints Harvard's presidents) paid no attention to Sargent's latest squawk...
...same situation holds in higher education, and "the higher, the worser," says Sargent. Worst of all U.S. universities, he insists, is his own alma mater, Harvard. "There is a hopelessness, a futility about life, a transparent pretense on the part of the fat boys, a feeling of despair on the part of those who still retain some consciousness of an honest past . . ." The reason: "The Corporation through its stooges" has gradually taken control of the administration and faculty alike...