Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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called the best. The election of council-members and appointment of prefects and inspectors on May first gave us a working knowledge of the Kent System hitherto taken for granted. The climax of the term, despite Prize Day, was the day on which we embarked on our summer vacation. We returned in the Autumn unencumbered by the Foster Contingent and with the addition of Allen, Bachellcr, Cheney, Colmore, Gam mack, Gott, Grandin, C. Harris, Grant, Griffin, Hatfield, P. Moore. Rumsey, Leverett Smith and G. Whitney. Among many improvements in the School plant were the new barns. Work was progressing on the new Infirmary. After assimilating these facts we elected Frothingham our president and started our various occupations. From our positions on the leagues we watched Ballard lead his team, coached by Mr. Bartlett, through a championship season. After Christmas we saw Jack Frey’s undefeated hockey team make a name for Kent. During that winter the Alumni House became noted for mysterious events, stairway catastrophes, trunk mysteries and window tapping, punctuated by the wailing of innocent victims. But the authorities, on the trail of a minor offense, encountered these phenomena and put a stop to them. The same dormitory later distinguished itself by its mystic rites to a certain Housatonic divinity, whose name, resurrected from the past, takes the form of Hankus. Our Spring term surpassed even that of the previous year. Benjamin Cheney and I.everett Smith became our first council members. Our Form crew and several men on the baseball squad made us feel somewhat important. The Prize Day report increased the feeling for we had seven of our members on the honor roll and in ranking were preceded only by the then, and, we hope, still brilliant class of 1947. The Fall of 1928 saw Cheney as our President and our Form numbering only thirty-four. The additions were: Baker, F. Harris, Nazro, Tewksbury, Yoorhees, Wainwright, Thompson and Yeomans. When we saw our members, except Cheney, still on the leagues, we realized that we had less claim to brawn than brain. Time flew quickly. After a moderately successful football season and very good hockey results, we came to the Spring term that was to bring us our first importance in the School. Colmore as cox of the crew was our first letter man and Ben Cheney turned in a second letter from his position on the baseball team. Bent, Nazro, Whitney and Frothingham played on the squad while Yeomans and Tewksbury won their tennis numerals. A junior four-oared crew was chosen from our Form to represent the School against Choate at Wallingford. Notable events of the term were the defeat of Pawling in baseball for the first time, and the breaking of ground for a new dining hall. We stayed after Prize Day for our first Board Examinations, drank tea, swam and had a good time generally. In the Fall Boughton, Brainard, Farnum and Muldaur were new-comers. I.everett Smith and Bent were our council-members, Bent our president. A successful football team, beaten only by Hoben of Hotchkiss, had Muldaur and 21