The Republican journal., 1920-01-01
70 D. A. SARGENT HONORED.

many Belfast friends of DR.. Dud-
Allen Sargent of Cambridge, Mass, a
rner Belfast boy, will read with un-
NAL interest the appended account of
,anouet given him in Boston Decem-
9th:
Prominent educators from all over the
try were present at banquet given
he Sargent School Alumni Associa-
to DR.. Sargent in recognition Of his
h. years continuous service in the field
h thysical education, at he Hotel Ven
ne, Boston.
BINS. H H. Longfellow president of
u Association, welcomed the guests and
reduced most gracefully DR. r, TAFT
cNenzie of the University of Pennsyl-
enia, as toast m aster as "a man of
tany titles, artist, sculptor and physical
ucator, but for to- nigh the friend of
Sargent"
lr Charles w. Eliot, president emeri-
of Harvard University. was the first
Baker. He told of DIR. Sargent's uphill
lat for the cause of physical education.
Ie has been genuine pioneer all his
After these many years he has con-
tied many to his point OF view. We
Re learned as result of the draft OF
physical condition of our young men.
cannot leave to the State the physi-
training of our children. at is of
tional interest that we should have
|versal physical training"
Rrof. Paul H. Hanus, director of Educa-
at Harvard, asserted that because he
o met with opposition from certain
mbers of the faculty when he tlrst
Me to Harvard to establish MS depart
il, he could sympathize with DR.. Sar-
of. Albert Bushnell Hart Of the His
department at Harvard was the next
ker He lauded the courage, skill
persistency of DR.. Sargent, whom he
Eribed as 1.-The first gentleman in the
Ted States to attempt to regulate the
les of intercollegiate athletics"
y Helen c. Putnam, class OF '85, who
Roduced physical training at Vassar
lege, recommended that so friends of
Sareent agree to obtain $1,000 each
the founding, or endowment of the
gent school. The toast master ap-
hted committee to take up The mat
+ b. George L. Meydan of Columbia
IN ersity termed DR.. Sargent ''the lead
III physical education of the world"
d. Alfred johnson of the Harvard
Committee on Edlca ion
Ike Interestingly of the boyhood of DR..
fgent; HHis training on the farm, in
shipyards of Belfast and as a sailor in
Civil War developed his physical |
wess, made 'Dud' Sargent the first
steur athelete in this section Of the |
6ntry."
pr F. N. Whittier of Bowdoin College
Ike of the fitting up of new gymna-
m with DR., Sargent's developing ap-
Hences, and of the Doctors continued |
&erest and help at all times for his AL
y Mater.
Miss Jessie Bancroft, honorary alum
81 Espoke of her writing to DR.. Sargent,
1Sen a very young girl, of her interest in
u work, and his reply was so helpful
~ encouraging that she was led to AXE
\ the work, She found him always
%dy with advice at any time.
EDther speakers were DR.. James H. Nc
|ardy, Of the International Y M. C. A, Of
|Frngtield, DR.. William Burdick, presi-
~ of the American Physical Education
|6sociation, Col. 7. D. Landon, Border-
SHn Military Institute, N. D., Mrs. Ed
Bro Muzzy Moore, 80, Miss Dorothy,
"a, ~, Miss Laura Cuylo for the un-
Ggraduates.
aDr. Sargent was presented with hand
Rne Dc Luxe volume containing person.
Eletters of appreciation by Maior-Gen.
0pnard Wood, Col, Roosevelt and other
nminent men, and an introduction by
k-Pres. Eliot of Harvard. DR.. Sargent
Anked the company, about $50 in num- !
II, in his own lnimitable way, for their |
vi wishes.