Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kent has maintained the healthy characteristics of a small school chiefly because of Father Frederick H. Sill, who is headmaster, religious guide, crew coach, pater familias. He is an Episcopalian and so are most of his boys, but he does not proselyte. If the school has a sanctum, it is Father Sill's study with low, slanting roof, often-disturbed shelves of books, a littered desk and several leather chairs. The conversations of this room are the unwritten and authentic chronicle of Kent. Many-times-famed have been the crews of Kent...
Many times Father Sill has said: "I'd like to take my crew to England." A few parents hinted that the publicity of such a trip would be harmful to schoolboy athletes-contrary to Kent's traditions of simplicity. But Father Sill quickly shaped his wish into a plan, and last week sailed with his crew squad for England, student third class on the Berengaria. The Kent crew will enter the Henley Regatta, will also row separate races with Eton and Radley, will visit Oxford and Cambridge...
...University crew was paced by the second eight for only a mile, the Seconds picking up the first eight at the mile and a half mark, then dropping out at the two and a half mile stake...
...Yale crew was not paced when it rowed the course, and the time reeled off by Leader's charges, 20.52, two seconds slower than Harvard's time, shows that the New Haven oarsmen are formidable. The exhibition shows that the two eights are very evenly matched and a close contest is foreseen for the afternoon of June...
...command a raider which, disguised as a neutral schooner, was to break through the Allied blockade. The Sea Eagle, like the Confederate cruisers during the Civil War, carried the flag of a beleagured nation around the seas; like them, she destroyed enemy commerce while guarding the safety of each crew. When she was wrecked at last upon a South Sea island her commander surrendered rainer than shoot his way to safety through a civilian population...