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He was born on September 28, 1849 in Belfast, Maine, United States, the son of Caroline (Rogers) and Benjamin Sargent, a ship-carpenter and spar maker who died in 1856.
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He was born on September 28, 1849 in Belfast, Maine, United States, the son of Caroline (Rogers) and Benjamin Sargent, a ship-carpenter and spar maker who died in 1856.
He was graduated from Bowdoin in 1875. He decame a student in the Yale Medical School, from which he obtained the degree of M. D. in 1878.
In 1869 he became director of the gymnasium at Bowdoin College. Two years later, though he retained his position as director. In 1872 he spent three months of the winter term at Yale College, introducing his plan of physical training, and until his graduation from Bowdoin in 1875 he continued to divide his time between the two institutions.
In 1875 he became instructor in gymnastics in Yale College. The same year, he opened his Hygienic Institute and School of Physical Culture, a private gymnasium in New York, and only a year later he was appointed assistant professor of physical training and director of the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard.
Since he early recognized that the introduction of physical training in colleges and schools was dependent upon an adequate supply of trained teachers, he organized in Cambridge in 1881 the Sanatory Gymnasium, which became the Sargent School for Physical Education. In 1887 he organized courses in physical training in the Harvard University summer school, which were given under his direction until 1919.
Health, Strength and Power appeared in 1904, and in 1906 twelve of his papers and essays were published under the title Physical Education. In 1927 appeared Dudley Allen Sargent: an Autobiography, edited by L. W. Sargent.
He retired from Harvard at seventy but continued to teach in his normal school until his death.
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He was a man of strong convictions, very loyal to those who shared his views but often intolerant toward those who opposed him. An indefatigable worker, he devoted all his time to professional interests even at the expense of social and family responsibilities.
His wife, Ella Fraser Ledyard of Brooklyn, N. Y. , whom he had married on Apr. 7, 1881, left him about 1898, and he lived alone during the last twenty-five years of his life.