Word: prep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoughts as the daily setting sun throws his rocking chair into shadows. When the Civil War came to an end, he was taking a degree at Luther College in Iowa. In 1866 he embarked on a teaching career as professor of Greek and modern languages at Albion Academy, his prep school in Wisconsin...
Robert L. Green, Jr. '39, of Baltimore, Maryland, was elected captain of the Freshman boxing team yesterday. Green, who prepared at Poly Prep in Baltimore, boxes in the 155-pound class...
...beginning the Adviser system was set up to do for Freshmen what the Tutorial was meant to do, and, it must be said, has done for the upper three classes. For the first year man, just released from the regimentation of prep school life, some sort of nature leadership is definitely needed, and it was hoped that the Advisers would be able to hack the trail through the wilderness of the early months in college. More important and concrete than this friendly guidance, the duty of the Adviser was to aid in the choice of courses during the first year...
...semifinals scheduled for 3.30 o'clock Monday, January 27, at the Garden. On Friday, January 31, the final tilt will be held, time and place to be announced later. The champions will be given the opportunity of practicing together during February, and several games may be played with prep school teams. They will travel to New Haven in February to meet the Eli intramural champs. Today's schedule follows...
...problem of the class of citizens attending the prep schools is the problem of the United States itself. A victim of a grotesque system of government cannot by any manner of reasoning be named as its cause. America must realize, as England has long done, that members of the socially privileged classes have as much to offer the government as any other group of the population. Provincialism and gas-house polities have left their sears on this country, and until such failings are overcome, it is both futile and unfair to compare this country's schools with Eton and Harrow...