For British Boys

Thirteen British boys (average age, 16) are this year enjoying an International Schoolboy Fellowship in such schools as Kent, Loomis, St. Paul's, Taft, Asheville, Choate, Pomfret.

Originator of the plan was Kent School's high-church headmaster, Father Frederick Herbert Sill, who coaches crew in his white cassock and sometimes, in black canonicals, substitutes as coxswain. Kent, the school in Connecticut's Berkshires where everybody does chores, was the first U. S. boarding school to send crews to the Henley Regatta. Last week Father Sill was wondering whether he should send a crew this year--because on June 15 the debt situation will be in a critical state. But British pedagogs soothed him: "We will not take it out on a schoolboy crew."

Another scholarship plan for British lads was announced by Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville School (N. J.). A onetime crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, Dr. Abbott was born in Halifax, educated at Oxford. Three students will be selected annually from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Shrewsbury, the schools which Dr. Abbott believes mold British opinion-makers. They will spend holidays with their U. S. schoolmates, will take a special course of Dr. Abbott's devising: U. S. History, physics and chemistry, higher mathematics and modern languages (which some pedagogs think are taught better in U. S. secondary schools than in British).

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