Word: sills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street between Nicollet and First. When he grew grass in the streets of the cities and bore down upon the brow of labor his Cross of Gold I was more excited than I ever have been at a football game. I nearly fell into the street from the window sill. Later I traveled with him while he campaigned through some of the western states and you can take it from me that when he stood on the back platform of Pullman and looked down upon the crowd gathered about him. he never looked like you picture him. He looked like...
...order to 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...
Kent is known among U. S. preparatory school boys as a place where you have to make your own bed and where the headmaster is a bug on rowing. Father Frederick Herbert Sill, the headmaster, was coxswain of the Columbia crew in 1895. Ten boatloads of Kent boys row every spring afternoon on the Housatonic River. In 1927, and again this year, Father Sill took his best oars to England...
...race. Father Sill suggested Princeton's age and experience might well win for them. But Sikes knew his men were several pounds lighter per man than the big Kent boys. When the shells were a half-mile from the finish he grinned: "Here's where we see whether Kent's weight will tell on us." Kent won by half a length...
...Delegate Stimson was the death of his personal secretary, Mrs. Pearl Demaret. Mrs. Stimson had just sent a goodbye bouquet to Mrs. Demaret who was about to sail for the U.S. because homesick for her husband and child. After arranging Mrs. Stimson's box of flowers on the window sill, Mrs. Demaret quite accidentally fell out of her Mayfair Hotel window...