Word: sills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return visit to that of the Kent School crew, which visited England last summer to row in the Henley Regatta and in a special race with the Radley School. The trip through the various educational institutions of this country has been arranged by the Reverend F. H. Sill, Headmaster of the Kent School...
...unfair for our flyers to get all the glory while those poor Frenchmen [Captains Nungesser & Coli] are dead," said Joseph Lewis, 39, Negro, as he stood poised on a window sill of his fifth-floor apartment in Manhattan. Then he jumped, died on the pavement below. Mr. Lewis' sister said that he had been melancholy for several weeks...
...Well, I can cook eggs " said the headmaster of a newborn preparatory school. He was addressing his students The Negro servants had just walked out because of the poverty of the school. That was in 1906 when the Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill took 18 boys and two faculty members to a farmhouse in the Berkshire Hills of Connecticut and founded Kent School. The beds-floors-eggs incident was the beginning of a student-supervised, student-broom-wielding system which runs the school to this day. Students regulate discipline, keep order in study hall, wait on tables, manage the athletic teams...
Kent has maintained the healthy characteristics of a small school chiefly because of Father Frederick H. Sill, who is headmaster, religious guide, crew coach, pater familias. He is an Episcopalian and so are most of his boys, but he does not proselyte. If the school has a sanctum, it is Father Sill's study with low, slanting roof, often-disturbed shelves of books, a littered desk and several leather chairs. The conversations of this room are the unwritten and authentic chronicle of Kent. Many-times-famed have been the crews of Kent...
Many times Father Sill has said: "I'd like to take my crew to England." A few parents hinted that the publicity of such a trip would be harmful to schoolboy athletes-contrary to Kent's traditions of simplicity. But Father Sill quickly shaped his wish into a plan, and last week sailed with his crew squad for England, student third class on the Berengaria. The Kent crew will enter the Henley Regatta, will also row separate races with Eton and Radley, will visit Oxford and Cambridge...