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...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...
...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...
...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...