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

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10 2 1 Room we saw things as they were. Life was serious, but just the same there was time for play. We had the following letter men in football: Villaverde, Noble, Bergen, Ilowden, and MacWillie. MacWillie also received his “K” in Hockey. Villaverde, Noble, Bergen, and Jackson were members of the Baseball Team. The Lanier brothers represented us on the tennis courts. We had not much longer to live before we became responsible men. Surprisingly soon the awesome day arrived. The sun rose over the same mountain and revealed the same familiar landscape, even though it was the first day of May. We sallied forth from our rooms clad here and there in old clothes. After hastily swallowing our breakfast we rushed up t Numeral Rock, breathless and eager to obliterate the efforts of the previous class. In a short time we had sufficiently covered ourselves with paint to qualify as professionals. Then we artistically dabbed on the colors. About eleven o’clock there was a rainstorm, during which we had ample opportunity to pass judgment without partiality on our labors. In spite of this impediment, the rock blazed forth a sparkling white '21 on an azure background soon after luncheon. Before the sun went down smilingly behind Mt. Algo the pop tent was also duly ornamented. As eight o’clock drew nigh the excitement increased. Perhaps Bergen. Waterbury, and Parker 11 were the calmest because they knew what was about to happen. For the rest of the form the future was uncertain. In due time our destiny was disclosed. Bergen, Waterbury, and Parker II were chosen prefects amid wild applause and ten others were appointed as inspectors. That night was the beginning o! the end of our school life. The next morning the new inspectors stalked suspiciously about in a mad hunt for filth, while the new prefects assumed an extravagant air ol nonchalance on the platform. Comparatively soon we accustomed ourselves to the altered conditions. Life again grew normal. For the second time we led the school in marks for the year. Cleveland once more being the head of the form. Crane won both the Senior Essay Contest and the English Prize. Yet intermingled with the happiness of Prize Day was not a little regret. Some of our best friends were graduating, but above all for the first time were we face to face with the enormity of the realization that we had but one year left in school. We promised that we would make it mean something worth while to ourselves and to the school we owed so much. At the beginning of the Autumn Term Babson and Wagner joined our ranks. We had reached the final stage at last, the position we had long looked forward to. In the afternoon, led by Cleveland, we raced to the Study and daintily sipped our tea. It was an untold source of delight to hear the inside information first hand. Yet we did not spontaneously skip about with joy. We were dignified sixth formers and took things calmly. The football contest between Harvard and Yale was the 17