Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next fall most of the Freshmen will come directly from prep or high schools. Future classes will be more and more molded in the patter of the pre-war Harvard. This is a mixed blessing, for the veteran student has been a boon to Harvard. He has brought it maturity, seriousness of purpose, and greater diversity. As it begins to "return to normaley" the College should strive to retain for future classes those elements which have reduced the crowding and the chow lines of the past year to the vel of of petty grievances...
...Prep School of Cambridge will furnish the opposition for Moe Berg's Yard-ling baseball team today at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field, while the Jayvees travel to Dudley to take on Nichols Junior College in the second game of a home-and-home series...
Although the original Committee on General Education pulled few punches in examining the role of secondary schools, little has occurred recently to dispel the widely-held impression that the Committee was beating invisible wings when it spoke out on the function of the high and prep school. Within the academic walls undergraduates have seen the visible fruits of "General Education in a Free Society," but little, unfortunately, seems to have drifted out into the public and private schools to ground the future college student with the kind of training which should lead up to the newly inaugurated program...
...present educational crisis, for General Education must be the goal of the secondary school as well as the university. What the Committee has failed to do is to take steps to publicize the University's position on secondary school curricula and to initiate specific readjustments of high and prep school programs to dovetail them with the college plan...
...secondary schools--and such objections are not ill-founded. Obviously the role of the Harvard Committee is not that of revamping faulty preparatory schools. Remoteness from the problems involved prevent any active correction on the secondary level by a University committee. Nonetheless, if the recommendations for high and prep schools are not to die aborning, the sincere proponents of General Education for the entire "free society" will have to saddle up their horses and get busy. A committee for open and active study in cooperation with the secondary schools might well be formed. A good deal more can certainly...