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As Kent's waiting list grew in popularity, it was seen that another school of the same type would be welcomed. Instead of lengthening his waiting list, Father Sill called to him his two prefects of '18, bought them another farmhouse at South Kent, five miles away, and helped them establish, not a twin, but an independent "younger brother" of his school. Twenty-four charter pupils were enrolled. Today, in its third year, this school (South Kent) has 51 boys, 7 masters and a waiting list of 100 or more boys, who will be admitted as fast as expansion can be effected. The headmaster of South Kent is Samuel Slater Bartlett, a 26-year-old New Englander now four years out of Lafayette College. Keen, vigorous, a young man of many interests and opportunities, he determined to make the school his career. His fellow prefect, Richard M. Cuyler, graduated by Princeton in 1923 with a high record, made the same choice and took the post of dean and registrar. Four other recent college graduates (Harvard, Lafayette and Princeton) soon joined them, and there is building today, not only a school, but another specific tradition of teaching that will reach out to other schools and back to the colleges.
*THE EDUCATION OF THE MODERN BOY—Six Headmasters—Small, Maynard ($3).
†Phillips-Exeter Academy (Exeter, N. H.) was founded in 1781 by John, brother of Samuel Phillips, upon seeing the success of the latter's school at Andover, Mass. Andover's first headmaster was Eliphalet Pearson, known as "Elephant," sung as Great Eliphalet (I can see him now), Big name, big frame, big voice and beetling brow.
*The late Frederick William Sanderson, headmaster of Oundle School, Northamptonshire, from 1892 to 1922, brought to wide fame by Biographer H. G. Wells.