Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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awakening of the inhabitants of the Field House in the dead of night to plunge through icy water knee-deep to the more sheltered buildings higher up. Forest fires later on caused diversion and not a little excitement. But the most significant event of the Spring was the organization of Kent's first crew. With the appearance of a shell on the river. Fr. Sill's long-cherished hope for a School crew became a reality. These agencies hel| ed to make the Spring a busy one. Jones and J. Cheney made the baseball squad, though the team suffered a rather unsatisfactory season. The crew took fifth place in the Yale Regatta, an auspicious beginning. On May first, another Fifth Form assumed executive duties, and a new Council was elected. Our representatives were J. Palmer and It. Cady, our other nominees being ('lark and Stafford. Prize Day came again and we bid good-bye to another group. We departed next day, but with a deeper sense of our significance in the school life. Our Fourth Form year possessed a peculiar importance for us. No longer were we lower formers. Through our representatives on the Council, we shared in the School authority. Athletically we were well represented. Palmer was elected President that fall and has not yet been removed from office. The undefeated football team of that year will lx long remembered. Jones and J. Cheney made their letters as regulars and have been valuable men ever since. The hockey team duplicated the performance of the eleven, concluding its schedule with a thrilling win from the Princeton Freshmen by the score of 2-1. J. Palmer was again a regular. Meanwhile, the strip of land between the Chapel and the creek afforded a busy scene as the walls rose for the New Infirmary. In the Spring, it was to be complete. Work had also begun on the new bridge, but progress was slow, and the temporary wooden structure erected to replace the original one still stood through the winter. The Spring Term passed speedily enough. The crew was fast, though Choate twice nosed out the Kent shell in the Yale and Harvard Interscholastic Regattas, each time after a hard race. On May first. Palmer and Cady were reelected to the Council. In June came another Prize Day. This time we began to realize that some day we, in our turn, would be going forth from Kent. In our Fifth Form year, two facts were clearly brought home to us early. The first was that our abilities ran rather to brawn than to brain. The other showed us that we lacked unity and many other attributes of a useful Fifth Form. There were many things to Ik accomplished before we could assume authority. We supplied many candidates for the football squad, but the results were below those of the previous year. The hockey team that year was a strong one. The team defeated St. Mark's, Pomfret, Choate, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, and, as in the previous season, wound up its schedule with a bitterly contested win over the Princeton Freshmen. 21

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J. Palmer scored the only goal of the game after four overtime periods. The Crew won the Harvard Regatta the following Spring, though it was not so successful in the race at New Haven. The baseball team made a record as good as that of any previous Kent team in that sport. Two games only were lost; Pawling was defeated, 8-4. for the first time in history. All the letter games were victories for Kent. The tennis team was undefeated after a hard schedule. In all of these sports, we were well represented, and the Fifth Form captured first honors in the inter-class track meet. The School was represented that year in the Interscholastic (dee Club Contest in New York for the first time. Under Mr. Kitson's direction, all branches of music prospered. Building operations of the Spring included the erection of a cottage at the end of the football field for Mr. McDowell and the laying of the foundations for the New Dining Hall. The climax of the year was reached for us on May first. Bright and early in the morning, we swarmed up the gaunt old rock armed patriotically with abundant red. blue and white paint. The flag hung at half-mast; we let it hang. Our efforts on the rock produced a red ’25 outlined in white upon a blue background. The combination was not quite what we had hoped for; but the day would have been entirely successful had not one of our members fallen from the top of a tree, luckily without permanent injury save to the tree itself. That evening, we formally assumed charge of affairs. J. Palmer, R. Cady, and Coyle took their places on the platform, and the Fifth Form inspectors went on duty. That Spring was a golden one. Next year was ahead with all the privileges and joys which appertain to the Sixth Form year. That Prize Day sobered us, however. Its significance was stronger than ever before. Behind us were four years, ahead but one. What was the last and l est to l e? Then the ('lass of ’24 went up the hill and left us as virtual Sixth Formers with full responsibilities upon us. We entered our final year with high hopes. The outstanding feature of the year has been the completion of the New Dining Hall. In September, the walls were already built. Soon the roof was completed; interior work progressed rapidly. Day by day, the building grew up to its present state. Any attempt at its description here is ineffective. Few, if any. who read this book are ignorant of its location, size, or beauty. R. Cady, captain of football, led his team through a very successful season. Hotchkiss alone defeated the eleven. Pawling was overwhelmed by the largest score ever made against that school. Choate, Berkshire and Westminster also went down to defeat. The Sixth Form was well represented on the gridiron, eighteen out of twenty letter men being from our number. The hockey season was hampered in the latter half by unfavorable weather conditions. The team, composed of veteran material, faced the stiffest test of any Kent hockey team. Notable victories over Choate, Pomfret, St. Mark’s, Yale and Princeton Freshmen were achieved. The team, however, suffered two