Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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 Cfje (Srabuattng Class John Peale Bent, President Philip Van Dyke Beckwith Charles Edwin Brainard William Maxwell Brewster Paul Tulane Bruyere, Jr. Benjamin Cheney Robert Lionel Col more Gordon Cuyler Richard Vincent Fabian Charles Wadsworth Farnum Roger Nathanael Fowler Peter Van Duzer Gott . Thomas Burnham Grandin Edwin Hendrie Grant . Barton Brune Griffin George Whitman Hatfield (diaries Trimmingham Holme Maxwell Moore Charles Edward Arrowsmith Mu Ida nr Winthrop Hale Palmer Henry Emanuel Russell. 2nd Leverett Tyrrell Smith Sibley Cosslett Smith, Jr. Robert Morris Snyder . Stanley Wyman Swaim ’an Ness Taylor Tyler Thompson . (iarret Coerte Voorhees Grosvenor Wainwright . Andrew Yeomans vs. X Harrisburg, Pa. Hartford, Conn. Hartford, Conn. Elizabeth, N. J. Chicago, 111. South Manchester, Conn. San Juan, P. R. Princeton, N. J. New Haven, Conn. Hendersonville, N. C. Bronxville, N. Y. Goshen, N. Y. Cleveland, Ohio Denver, Colorado New York City New Canaan, Conn. New Canaan, Conn. New Britain, Conn. Elizabeth, N. J. Warehouse Point, Conn. . New Britain. Conn. Xewburyport, Mass. Providence, R. I. Pottsville, Pa. Needham. Mass. Dedham, Mass. Elmira, N. Y. Kent, Conn. Scranton, Pa. Ojai, Calif. v -i U’ v • U 17

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history of tfje Class; of 1926 A WARM and sunny September afternoon was the good omen that welcomed to Kent the “brats of five years ago. Thirteen of us who were the “brats”, together with the later additions are about to graduate this Prize Day, taking with us the memory of those intervening years, whose trials and travail, gaiety and gladness, have taught us much and made us the class of 1926. In those distant days of 1921 and 1922 we were little more than the objects of the indifference, censure, or pity of those higher up. But we had, nevertheless, as all brats do, our own suppressed interests. Our trials were then, we beg to remark, great and, no doubt, beneficial. Being humble knights, we bore on our escutcheons a broom and dustpan rampant on a field of dirt. The burden of punctuality oppressed us. But in these, as in other matters, we had not as yet attained originality. We indulged in our soap-throwing, bed-dumping and other youthful sports in the orthodox manner. Our president of that year. Walker, among others, strove manfully with those embryo bandits, Foster, Neely, and Lewis, lest they should carry these illicit pursuits beyond the bounds of good taste and wisdom. Mills, a Third Former in our midst, held the undisputed championship of the dorm by a knockout, while Murehie of the same class attracted our interest by his artistic ability and predilection for aboriginal pursuits. True to our orthodoxy we endeavored to be respectful to our elders. Occasional assaults on the exclusive North Dorm furnished the necessary relaxation. Among these toughening experiences were the football and hockey leagues and the pursuit of learning, in the last of which, let it be noted, we already showed some small ability. One Winter night the bridge was destroyed by the ice and we, the youngest and most impressionable of the School, watched from Mr. Evans’ study window as the mangled remains ground their way down the gray and crashing ice-flow. A story has been circulated of a certain master, who, on the following morning, surmounted the barrier of ice between the School and town by crossing, hand over hand, on a telephone cable to his Latin and (ireek classes, intending to prove, doubtless, that his claim to fame was based on good solid muscle. The day previous to our Faster vacation a temporary bridge was completed and saved us from an enforced postponement of our departure. The early part of our first Spring Term is memorable as being wet. Remnants of the flood backed up by the departing ice gave our first Smith ample scope for his budding piscatorial art. We had much to occupy us. A mysterious aerial railway on the slopes of Algo busied several of our members. Certain eminent fun-lovers, deprived of former stamping-grounds at the old barns, pursued their game far afield. A newly inaugurated crew could be seen every afternoon swinging around the bend of the river, flashing by under the Study Hall windows, or floating peacefully out of sight in the distance. Baseball, including the leagues on which several of us played, was active and we realized how rightly Spring term is 19