SARGENT, DUDLEY ALLEN

(1849), director of physical training, b. at Belfast, Me., s. of Benjamin and Caroline Rogers Sargent. He was educated at Bowdoin and at Yale. After being connected with various institutions including Harvard, he was director of the Normal School for Physical Training, Cambridge, Ma ., from 1881-1916 and then pres. of its succe or the Sargent School for Physical Edn. Author: Physical Education, 1906, etc. American poet and writer, 6. in Gloucester, Ma . He graduated from Harvard University, was for some years engaged in journalism, in Boston and New York, and then devoted himself entirely to writing. Among his volumes of collected poems are Songs of the Sea, 1847, and Poems, 1858. He also wrote novels and plays, among the former being Wealth and Work, 1840; Fleet wood, 1845, and Peculiar; a Tale of the Great Transition, 1863, while among the latter are The Bride of Genoa; Change Makes Change and The Prieste .