Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connecticut has more boys' prep schools per acre than any other state in the Union. Last week it got a new one, organized to be different...
Only two intercollegiate matches marked the roster of the tennis team's first post-war season; Dartmouth whitewashed the Crimson squad 9-0 at Hanover, while Tufts bowed 3-0 in a match that was unfinished because of rain. An asertment of five nearby prep and high schools were taken over by the Crimson racquetmen during the season...
...they broke out the good Priory port, to toast the eldest of their number. It was the Rev. Dom John Hugh Diman's 83rd birthday. It was also a memorable fortnight for him. Last week his old school, St. George's (Episcopal), one of the top U.S. prep schools, celebrated its 50th year. This week another of his old schools, Portsmouth Priory (Catholic), marked its 20th. He founded both, and was their first headmaster...
...Three Cs. Like two other famed headmasters of New England prep schools, Peabody of Groton and Coit of St. Paul's, Diman thought the English public schools were on the right tack in stressing classics, character and Christianity. (Dr. Coit, however, was too English for him: "He was such an Anglophile that he wouldn't let the students play baseball; they had to play cricket."*) He was impatient of office routine, and so worded his letters that few required answers. The hours thus saved he spent in meditation...
Completely stalled in the first two periods more by their own sloppy passing and stick-handling than by Andover tactics, the lacrossemen repeatedly lost men on penalties for using unorthodox methods in trying to stop the prep school boy's attack. In the third quarter when they saw themselves in danger of losing the game, the Crimson team took the offensive and steadily outplayed the Blue and White...