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...where he went to school for six years) but he has left Kent School out of his picture. Nor has he recognizably drawn 'one of Kent's saltiest characters-as individual, in his way, as Cozzens' Dr. Bull-Kent School's famed headmaster, Father Frederick Sill. Tall, thin, startled-looking, with thick black eyebrows and black hair. Author Cozzens could pass as much younger than his 29 years. No novice at his trade, he has free lanced since his undergraduate days at Kent. The Last Adam is his sixth book. Others: Confusion, Michael Scarlett, Cockpit...
...game of trendel with a spinning top, eat lathes (pancakes) and potato kugel, receive Chanukah gelt (gifts). One may not work by the light 'of Chanukah candles (small yellow ones) or oil lamps, which are lit nightly from the special shammus candle and placed on the window sill...
...Manhattan apartment one early morning last week Ivan Rhuele Gates said to his wife: "I think I'll jump out of the window." His wife ran to him, clutched his waist, pleaded with him to listen. Brawny Ivan Gates ignored her, walked to the window, climbed upon the sill and-nearly dragging his small wife with him-jumped. Thus, dismally, died "Van" Gates, 42, Ringling of the flying circus era. Frustrated by the boom of commercial aviation. Van Gates had lost his money, his health. Few weeks ago he was operating "museums" on Broadway and at Coney Island where...
...accept an invitation to be present. But Bruce Barton was on the program as toastmaster, the following were invited as speakers and listeners: Headmaster Lewis Perry of Exeter, national president of Alpha Delta Phi; President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; Father Frederick Herbert Sill, headmaster of Kent School; President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago; Surgeon General Robert Patterson, U.S.A...
...superior learning of a Ph.D.," continued Father Sill," is wasted on the ears of bored Freshmen; only through talented and, above all, enthusiastic teachers, can their interest be properly aroused. Obviously, a teacher must know his subject, and the more he knows about it, the better, other things being equal; the point to be emphasized is the diminishing importance of successive additions to a teacher's scholastic accomplishments, beyond a certain point. Thus, among a group of prospective teachers who have a comprehensive, if unspecialized grasp of a subject, the scholastic attainment of individuals in the group, compared to their...