Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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Cheney among its members. Frothingham, M. Moore, Nazro, Russell, L. Smith, Snyder, Yoorhees and Whitney played on the squad. The success of Muldaur and Russell in dramatics was eclipsed only by the acting of Snyder in a female role. Right Fifth Formers accompanied the (ilee Club on its second trip to New York for the Interscholastic (dee Club Contest. Moore, Bent, Cuvier, Nazro, Froth-ingliam. Holmes and Grant received hockey insignia. The Spring of the Fifth Form year was undoubtedly a successful one. Four of our members were on the baseball team and the Fifth Form crew acquitted itself honorably. On May first, despite foreign intervention, we placed our numerals on the rock and took over the management of the School. I.everett Smith as senior prefect was assisted by Bent and Brainard with Snyder as sub-prefect. Perhaps the most enjoyable day of the year was that on which the Choate second and third crews and the Choate baseball team went down to defeat. The Fifth Form crew, in beating the Choate third crew, had the honor of sitting in the first shell to cross the line ahead of Choate. That evening a dance took place in the newly completed dining hall which we were invited to attend by the graduating class. So, after a short time, including the week before the Board Exams which is one of the best, despite rumors to the contrary, we completed our last year in the ranks. Our return in the autumn found us a very small form—only twenty-seven. We elected Bent our president and commenced to take charge of the affairs of a School of two hundred and thirty-six. The close of the football season gave six of our class their letters, but, though nine others were on the squad, the agre-gatc did not quite fulfill our earlier dreams. Nevertheless, we were becoming resigned to smallness of stature as well as scantiness of numbers. The autumn scholastic report, an unusually high one, showed our Form at the head of the list. To graduate, as evidenced by that report, has been our chief aim during the past year; and yet there are, in retrospect, many things in these school days of ours that make graduation seem not so worthy an object. There are landmarks behind which we will not forget and which will call us back again. Through many inland waters we have sailed together on a voyage that, happy as it has been, has yet had its stormy spells. But, despite storms, tempests, and landmarks looking at our fellow-voyagers as we head for the open sea, we find it in our hearts to say: “We know what risks all landsmen run. From nobleman to tailors, Then, Bill, let us thank Providence That you and I are sailors.