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Word: abre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drugs at Exeter have spread to become part of someone's identity in the students' social hierarchy. For a while most students were considered to be divided into the "drug agg" (abr. for aggregation) or the "jock agg." Athletic ability, at a school where sports are required, and masculinity, at a school where most boys enter just before or after they reach puberty, are two psychological hangups that keep the jock cliques on top of the social hierarchy for the first two or three classes. The "drug agg" was a social reaction against the athletes. Drugs were their most salient...

Author: By Evan Vaughan, | Title: Notes From the Prep School Underground: Drugs and Love Ethic at Exeter, Andover | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

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