Word: prep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attempting to meet these rather unsatisfactory conditions, some of the eastern prep-schools are conducting in formal conferences on Freshman programs and the graduate of these schools appears in the fall with courses chosen, an inestimable advantage over the poor unconscious innocent who hastily elects the first four courses that he hears of and repents it the rest of the year. The proposal that the University send out men to speak at the various nearby schools and for those at a distance publish an enlarged booklet on the Freshman courses, hits a snag when one considers the number of variations...
...system are obvious and manifold. It would allow the upperclassman to concentrate solely within his field. It would remove the annoying thought that after all these years the upperclassman must again putter around with testtubes and retorts, with scalpel and tweezers. It would aid materially in transforming the punctilious prep school student to the tutorial student of the college. It would relieve Seniors of the bother some thought that on some sultry day in June on some beautiful blue summer's day, he must sit down and cudgel his brain for the name of that last minute item...
...some have supposed, any crisis in its health should have been viewed with alarm. But the fact is that education is still several decades behind present-day social and economic needs. The whole vast secondary-school system is nothing more nor less than a widespread and well-organized college "prep" course. A majority of the colleges are training schools for the professions, as if we could successfully operate an industrial world with trained ministers, lawyers, teachers, doctors and dentists while all other workers remained untrained...
...junior varsity team will open its season this afternoon against Andover at Andover. Andover, which has had one of the best prep school lacrosse teams in the country for the past few years, is expected to give the J.V.'s plenty of opposition. The Harvard lineup will be: Webber, g; Allan, p; Freeman, cp; Rosenberg, 1d; Clos, 2d; Warwick, c; Howard, 2a; Forbush, la; Maddux, ch; Fields...
...first string lineup. They are Nicholas J. Bounakos, John A. Carter, Alan J. Dimond, Bruce H. Fernald, George D. Hartstone, William H. Howe, Jr., George D. Keller, Daniel F. Keyes, Laurence B. Levy, and Merrill B. Rubinow. Most of these men have had experience in the game while in prep-school...