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Kent School, the Glossary

Kent School is a private college-preparatory day and boarding school in Kent, Connecticut.^[1]

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1906 establishments in Connecticut
Boarding schools in Connecticut
Preparatory schools in Connecticut
Private high schools in Connecticut

Academic term

An academic term (or simply term) is a portion of an academic year during which an educational institution holds classes.

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ACT (test)

The ACT (originally an abbreviation of American College Testing) Name changed in 1996.

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Advanced Placement

Advanced Placement (AP) is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board.

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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Anglo-Catholicism

Anglo-Catholicism comprises beliefs and practices that emphasize the Catholic heritage and identity of the Church of England and various churches within the Anglican Communion.

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Apartheid

Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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College-preparatory school

A college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school or prep school) is a type of secondary school.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

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Cyrus Vance

Cyrus Roberts Vance Sr. (March 27, 1917January 12, 2002) was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980.

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Diving (sport)

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics.

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E. and G.G. Hook & Hastings

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church, officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.

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Eton College

Eton College is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England.

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Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Field hockey

Field hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalkeeper.

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Founders League

The Founders League is an American athletic league comprising a number of college preparatory schools.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Frederick Herbert Sill

Frederick Herbert Sill (1874 – July 17, 1952) was an American Episcopalian priest and educator.

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Gilded Age

In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Henley Royal Regatta

Henley Royal Regatta (or Henley Regatta, its original name pre-dating Royal patronage) is a rowing event held annually on the River Thames by the town of Henley-on-Thames, England.

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Hotchkiss School

The Hotchkiss School is a private college-preparatory day and boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. Kent School and Hotchkiss School are boarding schools in Connecticut, co-educational boarding schools, preparatory schools in Connecticut and private high schools in Connecticut.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

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Indoor golf

Indoor golf is an umbrella term for all activities in golf which can be carried out indoors.

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.

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John Rawls

John Bordley Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition.

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Kent, Connecticut

Kent is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball.

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Life (magazine)

Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.

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List of Kent School people

This list contains notable people associated with Kent School in Kent, Connecticut, including alumni and current and former faculty.

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Loomis Chaffee School

The Loomis Chaffee School (LC or Loomis) is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, including postgraduate students, located in Windsor, Connecticut, seven miles north of Hartford. Kent School and Loomis Chaffee School are boarding schools in Connecticut, preparatory schools in Connecticut and private high schools in Connecticut.

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Mariner Books

Mariner Books, originally an imprint of HMH Books, was established in 1997 as a publisher of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry in trade paperback.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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New England Preparatory School Athletic Council

The New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) is an organization that serves as the governing body for sports in preparatory schools and leagues in New England.

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Order of the Holy Cross

The Order of the Holy Cross is an international Anglican monastic order that follows the Rule of St. Benedict.

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Prince Albert Challenge Cup

The Prince Albert Challenge Cup is an event at Henley Royal Regatta.

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Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup

The Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup is a rowing event at Henley Royal Regatta open to school 1st VIIIs.

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Public school (United Kingdom)

In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Richardson W. Schell

Richardson W. Schell (born 1951 in Evansville, Illinois) is an Episcopal priest who has served as the headmaster of Kent School from 1981 until 2020.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Ropes course

A ropes course is a challenging outdoor personal development and team building activity which usually consists of high elements, low elements, or some combination of the two.

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Rowing (sport)

Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars.

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Rule of Saint Benedict

The Rule of Saint Benedict (Regula Sancti Benedicti) is a book of precepts written in Latin by St. Benedict of Nursia (c. AD 480–550) for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot.

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Saint Grottlesex

Saint Grottlesex refers to several American college-preparatory boarding schools in New England that historically educated the social and economic elite of the Northeastern United States.

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SAT

The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States.

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Seth MacFarlane

Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer.

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South Kent School

South Kent School, a private all-boys boarding school in South Kent, Connecticut, United States, is located on a campus in western Litchfield County. Kent School and South Kent School are boarding schools in Connecticut, Episcopal schools in the United States and private high schools in Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_School

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See also

1906 establishments in Connecticut

Boarding schools in Connecticut

Preparatory schools in Connecticut

Private high schools in Connecticut

References