Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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10 2 1 Bartlett, Senior Prefect, we nominated Conover, Waterbury, Howden and Bergen. From this group the school chose Bergen and Howden. With this big step in advance, we began to take part more fully in the school activities. Already in our Second Form year Bergen and Villaverde were exhibiting their prowess on the Baseball and Football Squads. Crane and Parker II proved to be our infant prodigies in mental athletics. The former won the Junior Essay Contest of 1917, and the latter was head scholar of the class for the first two years. In the third form year Villaverde received his “K in football and numerals in baseball, while Bergen strengthened his place on the same squads. We were well represented on the League teams in all sports. Prize Day came all too soon. We laughed to think we had no college examinations before us, and laughed loudly, for it was our last chance. Aldridge, Boyd. Cleveland, Groome, Harnlen, Jenney, Mahon. Moran, Nichols, Noble I, and Wilkinson attached themselves to our standards in September is. As soon as we got back we buckled down to actual study, with one eye fixed on the elusive scholarship cup and the other on the frowning front presented by the College Board examinations. In spite of our studies, we were unusually active in athletics. Aldridge, Howden, Waters, and Villaverde won their “K in football. Henry Lanier blossomed forth this year and pleased us by being our first letter man in hockey. Villaverde, Noble and Bergen represented us on the baseball nine. Besides these, we furnished numerous men for the various squads. It might be well to mention that a new classmate, Jenney by name, from the first day of his arrival followed the doings of the Pop Tent with hungry interest. His attitude of standing behind the counter with his expectant smile and outstretched palm has justly earned him the antithetical title of “The Jew. This year we nominated Bergen. Waterbury, Lanier II and Parker II for the Council. From these the school elected Waterbury and Bergen. At the Prize Day Dance we watched the older fellows reel ecstatically around and around the staid old fireplace. There was a flame in our hearts, a green flame of envy. The day would have been very sad for us, had we not been able to gaj)e admiringly at President Bergen and Head-scholar Cleveland carry off the scholarship cup. In addition to this. Jenney was awarded the History Prize, and Cleveland the Mathematics. But after the close of Graduation Day we decided that “All’s well that ends well. When we came back as Fifth Formers the next autumn we found several former classmates had deserte 1 us, but Allen. Chandler, Eliot, Moore, Roots, Smith and Trapnell more than filled the gap. The New Study Hall was nearly completed. It gave a more atlluential appearance to the school, and gave us more space in which to sit, or study, or, perhaps, both. From our desks in the rear of the Study 15