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...prayer ringing in his ears at Washington's St. John's Episcopal Church, across Lafayette Park from the White House. For the 20-minute service in the plain white chapel he had gathered about him his family, his Cabinet, a few close friends. At the altar in cassock & surplice stood his old schoolmaster, Groton's Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody who had married him to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. From his heart, from the hearts of his little band of worshippers, from the heart of a stricken nation rose a wordless appeal for divine strength to right great ills...
Originator of the plan was Kent School's high-church headmaster, Father Frederick Herbert Sill, who coaches crew in his white cassock and sometimes, in black canonicals, substitutes as coxswain. Kent, the school in Connecticut's Berkshires where everybody does chores, was the first U. S. boarding school to send crews to the Henley Regatta. Last week Father Sill was wondering whether he should send a crew this year-because on June 15 the debt situation will be in a critical state. But British pedagogs soothed him: "We will not take it out on a schoolboy crew...
Neither Father Sill (TIME, March 23) nor any other members of the Protestant Episcopal monastic Order of the Holy Cross wear a "white cassock...
...little, untidy, white-cassocked priest bustled frantically about a farmhouse in Connecticut. The dream?a high-church Episcopal school to educate boys of modest means?for which he had abandoned ordinary parish work, had seemed wholly accomplished yesterday; now everything appeared to have gone wrong. True, he had this rented house in the beautiful Berkshires, a staff of three masters, a family of four Negro servants, an enrolment of 20 boys. But the boys were beginning to arrive, there was much to be done, and the father of the Negro family had left in a huff. Out to the kitchen...
...crews. Father Sill took advantage of the nearby sweep of Housatonic River to teach his charges what he knows about rowing. The school has grown to have 286 pupils, 20 masters, $1,000,000 in property, so nowadays there are often twelve shells on the river at once. White Cassock (outside the classroom some call him "The Great White Tent," but most, respectfully, "The Old Man") coaches the first two crews. Sometimes, in black canonicals, he doubles as the crew's deep-bellowing coxswain. His first crews compete in the college class?against the Harvard 150-pounders, the Yale...