Word: prep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steady downpour that turned the second team field into a quagmire, the scrubs opened their season by routing the strong St. John's Prep. team, conquerors last Saturday of Tufts Seconds, by a 22-0 score...
Coach Knox spent a busy afternoon in preparing the black-shirted team for its opening game with St. John's Prep, scheduled for 4 o'clock today. The school team is reported as possessing a formidable offense, and has already overwhelmed the Tufts Seconds...
...this universality of youthful spirit found throughout the world but most particularly characteristic of the 'prep' school and college, that I would like to continue to represent. A following among those, who, like myself, are still young enough to understand and sympathize with this spirit, is the approval I would value most highly...
...advent of roving spirits from prep school that brought upon "Rosie's" school a certain odium, in the eyes of proper parents and professors. At tutoring schools, discipline is a matter of small import. The pupils pay roundly for intensified instruction; they are bound, in common sense, to attend classes. What has conduct to do with passing examinations? And what more natural, with a long year of college discipline ahead of them, than for boys who have been grilling through hot summer afternoons to brighten their evenings and weekends with mad pranks? Particularly when some of the boys are rich...
...athletic exercise, achieve a grace in waddling; almost none manage to run. In San Francisco a fortnight ago Miss Wanda Danley equaled the female world's record for a 100-yard dash ?11 2/5 seconds. This phenomenal pace could be equaled or eclipsed by almost any lean-shanked prep-school lad who is accounted a runner...