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...Well, I can cook eggs " said the headmaster of a newborn preparatory school. He was addressing his students The Negro servants had just walked out because of the poverty of the school. That was in 1906 when the Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill took 18 boys and two faculty members to a farmhouse in the Berkshire Hills of Connecticut and founded Kent School. The beds-floors-eggs incident was the beginning of a student-supervised, student-broom-wielding system which runs the school to this day. Students regulate discipline, keep order in study hall, wait on tables, manage the athletic teams...
Kent has maintained the healthy characteristics of a small school chiefly because of Father Frederick H. Sill, who is headmaster, religious guide, crew coach, pater familias. He is an Episcopalian and so are most of his boys, but he does not proselyte. If the school has a sanctum, it is Father Sill's study with low, slanting roof, often-disturbed shelves of books, a littered desk and several leather chairs. The conversations of this room are the unwritten and authentic chronicle of Kent. Many-times-famed have been the crews of Kent...
...Detroit, one Edward Herring, 50, walked near the river to catch a breath of fresh air. He hesitated for a moment in front of the Superior Smoked Fish Co. Down plunged a keg of pickled herrings from a third-story window sill, felled Mr. Herring...
...intends to duplicate General Motors -by means of Consolidated Motors Inc., which he has just had incorporated in Delaware. And "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the keystone of the great General Motors," he intends to use the new Star Six as the sill timber of his new structure. For supports, braces and superstructures to this he can furnish other companies that he controls-Durant Motors Inc. (makers of Star and Durant motor cars), American Plate Glass Co., Motors Parts Corp., New Process Gear Co., Warner Corp., Locomobile Co. of America (Locomobiles), Adams Axle...
Died. I-See-O (meaning "Plenty Fires"), 75 or 80, last of the Kiowa Indian scouts, only sergeant in the U. S. regular army holding his position for life* of pneumonia; at Fort Sill, Okla...