JOHN SINGER SARGENT

The death of the foremost American painter, John Singer Sargent, is the greatest artistic loss which the world has suffered in many years. To Harvard there comes also the sense of personal bereavement, for his relations with the University, which awarded him an honorary doctor's degree, have been intimate and his interest constant. Harvard, like America, can not regard his great achievements with any particular feeling of appropriation. It can lay no claim upon his distinctly universal artistry. It can only remember with pleasure that Sargent the man was in close sympathy with the University and that among other testaments of his affection his genial discerning brush has left to posterity and to Harvard portraits of two of, its greatest, presidents--tributes to them and now a precious reminder of his lovable personality.