Word: sills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither Father Sill (TIME, March 23) nor any other members of the Protestant Episcopal monastic Order of the Holy Cross wear a "white cassock...
...nearly 25 years succeeding scholars have waited on themselves, made their beds, done the chores. For thus was born what is known throughout educational society as "the Kent Idea." The school then started was Kent School, at Kent, Conn. Its white-cassocked founder: Father Frederick Herbert Sill, one of the first members of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross. His initial capital...
...Father Sill had had a brief, brilliant career. Born in Manhattan (March 10, 1874), he went to Columbia University where he was editor-in-chief of the Spectator, manager and coxswain of the 1895 Varsity crew which first brought honor to Columbia at Poughkeepsie. (In 1927 Columbia oarsmen voted him an honorary degree: Doctor of Rowing.) During college he was also a reporter (New York Sun). Later he was a theological student, a minister in Baltimore...
Even more widely famed now than the "Kent Idea" are the Kent crews. Father Sill took advantage of the nearby sweep of Housatonic River to teach his charges what he knows about rowing. The school has grown to have 286 pupils, 20 masters, $1,000,000 in property, so nowadays there are often twelve shells on the river at once. White Cassock (outside the classroom some call him "The Great White Tent," but most, respectfully, "The Old Man") coaches the first two crews. Sometimes, in black canonicals, he doubles as the crew's deep-bellowing coxswain. His first crews compete...
...Worthington C. Miner, Vice President Edward T. Gushee of Detroit Edison Co., Vice President Henry T. Skelding of Guaranty Trust Co., Editor Albert G. Lanier of St. Nicholas, Novelist James Gould Cozzens. So enthusiastically did they spread the Kent gospel that by 1923 the enrolment demand had exceeded Father Sill's conception of what a school body should be. Nearby, under his guidance, was founded South Kent School, with one of his graduates, Samuel Slater Bartiett, as headmaster. First South Kent senior class was graduated in 1927. Both schools still cater to families of little money,* Kent proper sometimes takes...