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Word: prep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ward and Bob Almy and center Jim Fletcher, with AI Key and Bill Allen backing them up from the defense positions. Nova Scotian and former Junior Olympic star Bill Yetman started as goalie, and left nothing to be desired as he and the Crimson defense shut out the inexperienced prep-schoolers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opening Practice Won By Yardling Pucksters | 12/12/1946 | See Source »

...last winter's team, but Boston and Assistant Coach jay Thomas emphasize that no position on the team is definitely filled. At the 145-pound class former Kent captain and a member of the two previous Crimson teams, Frank Tyng, is the leader contender while Dan Ray, Poly Prep captain two years ago, is moving up from the 145-pound class he filled last year to the 155 pound slot. Battling Ray for this position is an Exeter wrestler, John Cassady...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/4/1946 | See Source »

Still full of holes, the tentative schedule includes tilts with leading prep and high schools as well as first year teams from other colleges. Included so far are St. Paul's, Andover, Exeter, Noble and Greenough, St. mark's, and the freshman forces of Yale, Dartmouth, Boston College, and Boston university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Puck Team Faces Final Cut Today | 12/4/1946 | See Source »

Starred in Prep School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson to Harry Little Boy Blues And Tigertowners in Meet Today | 11/2/1946 | See Source »

...equipment and teachers, said the educators, was the continuance (passively approved by the U.S. Army) of the traditional German educational caste system. After the fourth grade of elementary school, only 10% of German children have the money or social position to get into secondary schools (roughly equivalent to U.S. prep schools); the other 90% get four years' vocational training, then become Germany's butchers, bakers & candlestick makers. A majority of German children have to choose their vocations before they are 14-and stick to their choice. The mission urged the U.S. to make all German secondary schools tuition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School among the Ruins | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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