Word: sillness
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...Father Sill's List...
Someone had opened a window. A bit of sweet fall air drifted into the room; a dry red leaf rustled on the sill. For some reason, Vag was thinking of his boyhood (how far away it seemed now, when one was old, and tired, and bored with Boston debutantes-). What a weekend that had been! They had come down the mountain in the dark, and there had been singing around the cabin stove after supper, and later a square dance in an old barn to the squeak of a country fiddle, stamping, and the laughter of pretty girls. He thought...
...Fort Sill, Okla...
...rented a farmhouse and started Kent School. Kent became famous for great crews, for the "Kent idea" (pupils do the school housekeeping chores, pay tuition according to their means). Last week it became known that the man who coached the crews and originated the idea, Father Frederick Herbert Sill, had sent Kent old boys a note beginning: "I am very happy." Reason: the trustees had elected a new headmaster - 33-year-old, Scottish-born William Scott Chalmers, Princeton '29. In this characteristically self-effacing way Father Sill, ill since last year, let his boys know that he had decided...
...sent and whether they wish to be in the horse drawn or the motorized field artillery, Colonel Jay indicated. They will be sent wherever there are vacancies in military camps. At the present time Harvard graduates are on duty at Camp Devens, Fort Ethan Allen (Vermont), Fort Sill (Oklahoma), and at other Field Artillery camps all over the country...