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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...
Even if a boy, the babe would still have received a sword, its significance being "to ward off evil." Being a girl, the pink babe was also presented with a purple skirt, "emblematic of femininity." She was then turned over to her two wet nurses, wives of army officers. Diligent, they have been studying Yamato Kotoba, the special court language, for months, will be able to address the suckling princess properly...
Saul Singer at 15 was proprietor of a hardware store in Sebastopol. At 17 he was earning $4 a week in a Manhattan sweatshop. He became in due course president of the $15,000,000 Garment Centre Capital buildings, president of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association. At 47 he has a rambling colonial house of 25 rooms and a large forested estate on Long Island where he employs two chauffeurs and three gardeners, owns saddle horses, a station wagon and two limousines...
...Back from the club in an open barouche rode the royal brothers through lines of cheering Bermudians, solemnly shook hands with 650 chosen people. So thrilled was one Bermuda lady at the prospect of meeting royalty that she forgot to put on a skirt...
Traveling under the name of "Mrs. Grant," Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was discovered at Honolulu, where she purchased a Hula skirt and a book of instructions in Hula-Hulaing. Later she took ship for India. Said she: "I want to get close to the women of the East...