Word: pater
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...worldly ways, "Pater's" school was a high success. Rich & poor alike partook of his simple religious faith and his exuberant spirit. The boys made their own beds, waited on tables, worked in the kitchen, did practically all the physical work of the school. This "Kent system" became famed in the secondary-school world and was aped, in varying degrees, by many another school. Kent's oarsmen, coached by Pater himself (an ex-coxswain at Columbia), rowed at many a famed Henley regatta in England...
...Housatonic River in 1906. There, under the Order's supervision, in one of the best of New England's preparatory schools, young boys, rich and poor, do their own housework, pay what they can afford. Some of them used to get to row on one of "Pater" Sill's Henley champion ship crews...
...current novels by young Thomas Hardy (whose fictional county of "Wessex" was slowly replacing Trollope's "Barsetshire"), nothing so sensual and pagan as the lyrics of up-&-coming Poet Oscar Wilde, nothing so effete as the art-for-art's-sake of Oxford's esthetic Walter Pater...
...Paris a small, thin Jewish boy from Budapest was learning to say the Pater Noster. Since he had come to live with French foster parents he had almost for gotten the old prayer, Mole ani lefa-neha...
...visits to Platonist Benjamin Jowett (who seemed to be always "hurrying, like Puck, to 'hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear'"). He saw Lewis Carroll "flitting, flitting like a shy bird into some recess of Christ Church." He sat at the feet of Esthete Walter Pater, whose mustaches hung "pendulous in the shadow." He became stroke of the Trinity boat. During vacations he read the classics, climbed the mountains of Cumberland and relished "the monotony of sweet mountain mutton and 'Mr. Pendlebury's Pudding' (known to us as 'Pendlebags'), a delicious...