Word: prep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judging America's leading preparatory schools as failures because they have not contributed heavily to the governing class of this country. Fortune seems to have lost all perspective of what the political system of the United States really is. The article in this month's issue handles the prep schools roughly in several places, as it is well it should, but in gloomily comparing them to the English institutions of their class Fortune wilfully ignores the wide gulf between the characters of the two countries...
...more just to measure the training given by the prep schools by observing the records made by their graduates in the universities. Here there are no geographical or social bars to their competing with men from every type of school all over the country. Even Fortune admits, however grudgingly, that here students from the leading prep schools stand out more prominently than their comparative numbers warrant...
Professor Clifford Brownell of Columbia University charged that the community is directly to blame for football accidents in high and prep schools...
...stays in the East after his college course, any scholar who has no ambition, any scholar who does not see and accept his responsibility to his state and to Harvard in receiving the scholarship, serves the final end of the new policy not a whit. Letters, interviews, recommendations, prep school grades, and examinations all should continue to be used in choosing the candidates, but the end must be always and frankly in view...
...student who has not received an honor grade in his College Board examination, a needlessly complicated system has been devised. Since in most prep schools the College Board in English is taken in the senior year, there is no chance for the repeating course suggested by University Hall. Even if such a repeat could be made, it would be a complete waste of time to take another prep school course in English merely because one has failed to receive an honor grade in the first. Unless a man has failed his English College Board he, too, should be allowed...