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Then General Manager Kent Cooper talked: "Each community requires a supply of intelligence, more necessary in times of depression, perhaps, than in a prosperous era. To dig themselves out of the Depression, people must think, and they cannot think unless they are reliably informed...
...Personality, teaching ability, and enthusiasm, rather than the number or quality of degrees to a man's credit, should be the primary considerations in the choice of teachers for elementary college courses," said the Reverend F. H. Sill, headmaster of the Kent School, in an interview last night...
...Much of the expenditure by college athletic departments could be saved, and a much closer contact between instructor and student could be effected through the abolition of professional coaches, and the substitution for them of amateurs whose primary occupation is teaching. At Kent, there are no professional coaches, and the school is, I venture to say, deficient neither in athletes nor in scholars. At Harvard, the purpose so often expressed by the authorities to draw student and tutor closer together, could be greatly furthered by an application of the scheme to the House Plan, making tutors coaches of House athletics...
...Detroit, while demonstrating to Chief Detective Frahm how his client shot a man, Attorney Allen W. Kent shot himself to death...
...before the scheduled death of Prisoner Jones, Governor Andy Kent begins to feel himself cracking up. "If only the victim had been a less decent sort. If only he had cursed?or sworn? or fought. . . . But how can you dig a grave for such a man?you enter his cell at midnight, to make sure the officers who keep him from suicide are not sleeping?-you see him sobbing all over, like a child." When Governor Kent passes the open grave, sees the quicklime piled beside it, his conscience rises with his gorge; rather than carry...