Word: kents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cutting from TIME, Oct. 11, has been forwarded to me by an American friend. I am both humiliated and distressed to discover that . . . emphasis has been placed on minor remarks of a jocular nature, to the entire disfavor of Kent School, whereas the serious side of Kent life, which was stressed by me in enthusiastic terms, has been completely ignored...
...watching his Kent School (Conn.) crew sprinting to victory past an English shell on the Thames, the Rev. Frederick H. Sill decided that British schoolboys ought to get a chance to visit the U.S. Last week chubby, blond Anthony Stewart Arnold was back in England, after a year at Kent on one of the Schoolboy Scholarships started by Father Sill 20 years ago. Like other young Britons who had made the trip last year, 18-year-old Tony Arnold thought that U.S. prep schools were great fun to visit-but no place to get an education...
Tony conceded that his year at Kent School had loosened him up. Said he: "The spirit at Kent is terrific. I learned to take my shirttail out of my trousers, so to speak, and let it dangle." He had even learned to call his teachers Jack, Chuck and Bill-something that would have been considered scandalous at Radley College, his English school...
...intellectual race, Tony Arnold thought, Radley would win in a walk. Said he: "At Radley, I used to tell my master that I planned to do an essay on some subject. It wasn't the deadline that mattered, it was the quality. At Kent, we were told to have an essay ready on an assigned subject by Monday morning. Everybody just dashed off something with the least possible effort. Students at Kent are just shoehorned along to graduating." The boys talked about sex "for hours & hours," but were innocent of political ideas...
Last week Dr. Kent, 66, became the first woman in the U.S. to be elected president of a state medical society. A grandmother now, she still works a full schedule and keeps her regular practice. She has been president of her county medical society, and has organized a statewide series of refresher courses in obstetrics and pediatrics. But when asked why she was chosen president of the Oregon State Medical Society, modest Dr. Kent replies: "I really don't know...