Word: prep
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...small importance. however, compared with the great principal which this election involves. The names of the candidates need not be mentioned, but if we are to have true democracy in Harvard athletics; if we ever hope to give the lie to that too common talk of "clique-favoritism," and "prep-school pull" in the make-up of our teams, now is the time for the Athletic Committee to put an act on record...
...fair to ask why our Glee Club gives concerts at Andover for the benefit of her baseball team, why we send men there to coach her team, and, in fact, take every interest in her affairs: while, on the other hand, Exeter, which has always been the leading "Prep" school for Harvard and which sends more men here than Andover, should be entirely neglected...
...important feature of Wednesday's game between Yale and Phillips Andover might be of great service to Harvard at the present time. It is that Yale was willing to travel from new Haven to Andover to play a "prep" school team. For several years it was customary for Harvard to play at least one game with Andover and Exeter. Of late, however, we seem to have departed from the precedent, and have substituted scrub nines wherever the weakness of the other team has been such as to give our 'varsity teams little practice...
General references: Minority Report of Faculty to Board of Overseers, Jan. 6, 1891: Prof. Mac Vane in Harvard Monthly March, '91; in Pres. "Shortening and Enriching the Grammar School Course," pamphlet Pres. Eliot's address before N. E. Ass. of Coll. and Prep. Schools...
...Exeter can demand of applicants of over sixteen years of age, only "some knowledge of arithmetic, writing, spelling and grammar:" Minority Rep. p. 19. - (b). Our primary schools are not sufficiently organized, vide chart in addresses and proceeding of New E. Ass. of Colleges and Prep. Schools, Oct. 16, 1891. - (c). French and German youth pass Americans at the primary and grammar school stage: Ibid...