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...expected that 150 schoolboys and masters from all the leading New England preparatory schools including Andover, Choate, Exeter, Groton, Hotchkiss, Kent, South Kent, and Taft Schools, will attend. They will be distributed in various Harvard dormitories and will be taken through one of the houses as well as being addressed by members of the Harvard faculty and undergraduate body in order to acquaint them with the college system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREP SCHOOLS WILL CONFER AT HARVARD | 12/2/1930 | See Source »

...discuss special pre-college problems. They will be addressed by Dean Luther Weigle of the Yale Divinity School and R. E. Harris of the Union Theological Seminary. On the committee which is planning the conference are Dr. S. S. Drury '01, of St. Paul's, Father Sill of Kent, Dr. A. E. Stearns of Andover, T. L. Harris, C. L. Glenn, and J. H. Lane '28, graduate secretary of the Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREP SCHOOLS WILL CONFER AT HARVARD | 12/2/1930 | See Source »

This is a big month for Artist Rockwell Kent. The Literary Guild has chosen his N by E; the Book-of-the-Month Club has taken the late great Herman Melville's Moby Dick in a new edition illustrated by Kent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voyagers* | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...record of a voyage to Greenland made last year by Kent and two companions: the late Arthur Samuel Allen Jr., 22† and Lucian ("Cupid") Carey, 22. Their boat, the cutter Direction, 13 tons, 33 ft. over all, belonged to Allen's father. Allen was skipper, "Cupid" mate; Kent was cook and navigator. They sailed from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, June 17, made the coast of Greenland July 15. Twice on the way they were nearly wrecked. Allen was a good sailor, says Kent, but his judgment was poor. When they anchored in a little cove 40 miles from Godthaab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voyagers* | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

Author & Artist. Rockwell Kent, 48, onetime well-digger, sailor, farmer, teacher, lobsterman, carpenter, architect, boatbuilder, has a passion for the sea, a passion for painting. Not afraid of solitude, he has lived and sailed much alone (from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego). To finance a trip to Alaska he once incorporated himself for $10,000, paid a 10% dividend. Last summer he painted a 6,400 sq. ft. canvas ceiling for the Dennis, Mass. "Cinema" (TIME, July 28). Last month he won his suit against Delaware & Hud son R. R. for resumption of passenger service between Ausable Forks (where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voyagers* | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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