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...basic will come specialized training, with strong emphasis on weapons, radio, radar, other technical aspects of modern warfare. At first the trainee will work with squad or platoon, then with a regimental team, finally in combined maneuvers such as amphibious landings. Maneuvers will be held at large camps like Sill or Benning, which have both room and equipment...
...knew would cost money: to provide a decent, religious, private-school education for poor boys of good families. He got his Father Superior's permission, then mailed out appeals which would have brought him $250,000 had everybody contributed. He got $300. "Well," sighed Father Frederick Herbert Sill, "if the Lord wants me to start a school...
...with an inexperienced three-man faculty and 18 boys, Kent School opened its doors in a ramshackle Connecticut farmhouse. Father Sill was vowed to lifelong poverty, chastity and obedience, but where Kent School was involved, he proved a shameless beggar, a tireless publicist, a resourceful promoter and a born teacher of boys...
...nature of Kent's success was not an unmixed pleasure to the fathers of the Holy Cross, whose rules require that they should eat and live for the most part separately from the world, coming from seclusion only to perform certain tasks. When Father Sill's broken health forced him to retire, Holy Cross provided Kent with a successor in young, studious Father William Scott Chalmers, but in 1943 decided to hand grownup, self-sufficient Kent over to its trustees. Father Chalmers, by special permission, stayed on as headmaster. Father Chalmers soon discovered the impossibility of fitting...
...Holy Cross monks' lives are by no means all retreat and seclusion. An early rule of the order was "designed to train every man for what he can do best" and to make him ready for "any sum mons." Best-known summons was the one which called Father Sill to found Kent School in an old farmhouse on Connecti cut's 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...