Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side-lines to nurse injuries or simply make way for ambitious novices. Larry Corbett is in the former category with a sprained back and Dave Ives and Doug Pirnie will restrict their activities to the dashes. Sophomore Bill Maygar, who reached 21 feet 9 inches broad jumping in prep school, will thereby be given his first whack at outside collegiate competition...
Last week two great headmasters of two great boys' prep schools announced their retirement...
...John Wayne ("Big Dick") Richards did not found suburban Chicago's Lake Forest Academy, but he made it a Midwestern counterpart of the exclusive Eastern prep schools. He also introduced the Richards Plan, a highly successful system of rotating class periods and supervised study. Last week Big Dick, wasted by an illness in which he had lost 45 lb., announced that in July he would turn over his job to a successor: slender, athletic Harvardman E. Francis Bowditch, 29, now headmaster of Indianapolis' Park School...
Adams House has its share of New England prep-school men; and it also boasts a fair percentage of middle and far-westerners. It has a few top-notch scholars, and a considerable larger number of outstanding athletes. The average is none of these, but can hold his own with...
Probably the controlling factor in admitting men is distribution, as applied to home-state, school, and field of concentration. While "follow your friends" is always a good motto in selecting a House, beware of applying for admission to the same place as all your prep-school mates, particularly if your scholastic rank is lower than theirs...