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Sargent, Dudley Allen

medical examiner, lecturer, inventor, author, was born Sept. 28, 1849, in Belfast, Maine. He received the degrees of A. B., A. M. and S. D. from Bowdoin college; and the degree of M. D. from Yale college. He is the director of the Hemenway gymnasium of the Harvard university at Cambridge, Mass. He has been president of the American association for the Advancement of Physical Education; has invented various gymnastic appliances; has lectured extensively on physical training; and is the author of a number of works on these topics.