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...Sargent claimed the large number of Prep school tutees was due largely to personal wealth. "A great many have no interest in getting a college education but go through the four years just to please their parents, who regard college in the same light as a finishing school," he says...
...result of this lack of enthusiasm," Sargent stated, "interests turn away from studies, social obligations claiming almost all the preparatory graduate's time. To make up for the lack of application to his studies he is forced to go to tutoring school...
...years an adviser to parents of prep school children, Porter Sargent '96 undertook yesterday to explain the reason for the large percentage of prep school cram patrons...
James H. Matinband '40 won the John Osborne Sargent prize of $200 for the best metrical translation into English of a lyric poem of Horace. The Sales prize of $60 was given to Karl T. Soule, Jr. '39 for his translation into Spanish of a passage from "Two Years Before the Mast," by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Thomas V. Healey '40 and Robert E. Tucker '41 received honorable mention...
...Sargent thisyear found his 1,190-page handbook too small to contain his views, decided to restrict his handbook to education and publish a separate 400-page volume of general comment-Human Affairs...