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...year. According to the Council's officers, this is greatly encouraging in the face of a bad business year. The Council feels, as it has in the past, that it is most important that the Senior Class should start contributing to the Fund while its members are sill in College. In 1927, 267 men in the Senior Class of that year gave to the Fund, a record for any Senior Class...
Harvard v. Kent, No preparatory school in the U. S. does so well at rowing as Kent, where the boys have to sweep out the school buildings and make their beds before rowing practice, and where the rowing coach wears a skirt. Father Frederick Herbert Sill, Kent Headmaster, is the rowing coach; he wears his skirt because he is a member of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross (TIME, March 23). Every year his first and second crews start their season with a race against the first and second Harvard 150-lb. shells. Last week Father Sill...
Neither Father Sill (TIME, March 23) nor any other members of the Protestant Episcopal monastic Order of the Holy Cross wear a "white cassock...
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...