Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having disposed of Andover last Wednesday for its fifth straight victory, the Yardling hockey team goes after still another prep school sextet in the form of Phillips Exeter, at the Boston Skating Club at 8 o'clock tonight...
Buckling down for Winsocki has less appeal than hitting the line for Harvard. At least that's the opinion of a young lady who ought to know. She's Maureen Cannon, sparkling ingenue lead of the Broadway hit, "Best Foot Forward," who thinks that prep school boys, even if they're from Winsocki, are small-time compared to "some of those Harvard...
...attitude arises from a fundamental belief not in democracy but in the status quo. The reason America's colleges must overdo their task is that their raw product is too unintellectual, too uncritical, too gullible, and too full of bunk. The high schools and to a lesser extent the prep schools provide merely a superficial pot-pourri of facts and so send to college men and women lacking sufficient intellectual maturity to be given the finishing touches of a liberal education in a few months. Because the colleges must teach the students how to study and how to think before...
Sophomore Phil Carson is undoubtedly the individual star of the Brown team. Usually entered in the 220 and 440, he starred in prep school at Mercersburg, was last year's yearling captain fro the Bruins, and is expected to break every New England college record on the books this season...
Pulham embodies the reflections of a Boston investment counsel when his 25th Class Reunion Committee asks him for a brief biography of his life. Back goes the camera into his well-to-do Boston upbringing, his "carryon" prep-school days at St. Swithin's; Harvard and culture; World War I and the Argonne; Manhattan and the advertising business; the girl he loved (Hedy Lamarr); his easy, fateful slide into his late father's (Charles Coburn) sinecure; his passionless marriage to his mother's choice (Ruth Hussey); his slightly bewildered, slightly querulous, slightly pathetic acceptance of his fate...