Word: prep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this sort of unmannerly exuberance be reconciled with the fact that suits are de rigeur in eastern classrooms, that formal dress means white tie and tail coat on most eastern campi, that exclusive prep schools furnish a majority of the entering undergraduates...
...Freshman team has its first game this afternoon when it goes to Southboro to meet St. Mark's. Although there is no way of determining the first year men's ability on the diamond, enough valuable last years prep-school material has reported to Coach Bond to form a fairly formidable nine...
...portrait. There are those at Yale who have become firmly convinced, not of the value of its social training, not of the spurious importance of costly buildings, but of the purely intellectual and educational opportunities it affords. If such men can live through the first two years of banal "prep"-school routine and generally low grade instruction without experiencing a revulsion of vicious disgust toward the university and the pretentiousness of its very name, they will be amazed to find themselves in a place where a genuine interest is taken in them and in their aims. And if they...
...charged that football has become "a semiprofessional racket operated largely for the amusement of the alumni and the general public . . . until probably 80% of the men who play college football in the bigger institutions are semiprofessional athletes hired by assistant coaches who make annual pilgrimages to prep schools." He had urged that the game be returned to the students. If not, "let honest professionalism replace furtive hypocrisy...
...Janney, as Penrod, is a talented and charming boy, with an infectious laugh and a most engaging swagger. But his face is far too pretty for Penrod, who would have been more accurately represented by Junior Cohgian, the youngster who plays Sam. If ever Hollywood does a story of prep-school life, which is unlikely, Leon Janney would make a perfect lower-form boy attending Sunday evening Chapel in an Eton collar...