Last week two great headmasters of two great boys' prep schools announced their retirement:
> In the green hills of Connecticut a small, pudgy-faced Episcopal priest 35 years ago rented a farmhouse and started Kent School. Kent became famous for great crews, for the "Kent idea" (pupils do the school housekeeping chores, pay tuition according to their means). Last week it became known that the man who coached the crews and originated the idea, Father Frederick Herbert Sill, had sent Kent old boys a note beginning: "I am very happy." Reason: the trustees had elected a new headmaster 33-year-old, Scottish-born...
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