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Death, some think, is a sort, of recitation-an "unseen" that you have been trying to spot through a somewhat rowdy study-hour. Whether you know anything or not, you have to stand up. Last week the grim Master of Headmasters called on Francis H. Tabor, head of St. Bernard's School, Manhattan...
...Tabor" to any St. Ber. nard boy and he will answer mechanically, "Mr. Jenkins." They were joint headmasters: John Jenkins, a brusque punctilious Englishman with a voice that barks, an eye that explodes, and a mustache that bristles in a futile attempt to conceal the deep and challenging kindness he feels for all lads under 16; Mr. Tabor, a man who looked as if he might have sat as a model, long ago, for Mr. Punch- a very tall, sanguine, athletic Mr. Punch, with a charm that made mothers ask him out to dinner and fathers...
...enter the second or third form at one of the big preparatory schools. But small as they are, some of them have surprising names-the names of well-known capitalists, famed lawyers, architects, actors, brokers. It is absurd to hear such names applied to inky insolence in corduroy. Mr. Tabor was aware of this; he showed it by setting rows of black-marks against some of the sleekest platinum-and-roseleaf names; he would stand 60-pound celebrities in the corner with their hands over their heads. And he was ones leader of a club* of 10,000 boys with...
Died. Francis H. Tabor, 60, joint headmaster of St. Bernard School; in Locust Valley, L. I., of heart disease, (See Page 21, EDUCATION...