Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended just where he started -in the horse-&-buggy age, without the addition of very much plumbing. Yet here in my own life, which is not entirely over, I am already in an entirely different world." A well-to-do upbringing full of Tennysonian sentiments, St. Swithin's prep school ("Play up-and play the game"), Harvard clubs, Boston society and Maine coast summers equipped Harry Pulham with snobberies and ideals for living in Boston of the 1890s. Suddenly he found himself an infantry lieutenant in France, an advertising man in cynical post-war Manhattan. He was baffled...
Chances for a Crimson victory in the coming Yale match look pretty grim, especially since Yale has one of the best Freshman Squash squads of Bulldog history, the team being composed largely of players from Exeter which last year had the best prep school rating in the East. The Crimson team, for the Yale match, will doubtless have Grey and Bane for number one and two men, respectively, while McDonald, Stevens and Gorenstein will battle it out for the remaining three positions with Marshall Hughes and Nevill Cramer, two men who are coming up fast from the second team...
...reached out to hold up a slipping brassiere strap and occasionally competition has threatened the leadership of the Old Howard, but never has its loyal following of beardless youth and balded age fallen away as did the Millerites. Here, with a bottle of Scotch and large cigars, fresh-from-prep-schools Yardlings match their manliness against each other. Crimson Crimson candidates push into backstage dressing rooms for exclusive interviews. Reverent Yale men drop in on their pilgrimages to the nearby Waldorf where a plaque marks the birthplace of Eli Yale--across the street from the current Crawford House...
About 25 prospective Yardling lacrosse players, many of them promising men who have played on their prep school teams, reported last night at a preliminary meeting in the Chess Room of the Freshman Union...
...delightful feature of life in Cambridge is that things run along pretty smoothly without the petty rules on radios, dress, ownership of automobiles, and other needless red tape which plagues the student at most prep schools and at too many colleges. A citizen in the Harvard community is regarded as such. Yet, though the liquor and cut liberalizations were put through here long ago, the parietal rules still lag behind those of Yale and Princeton. At present a Student Council committee is investigating the logic which distinguishes parietal discipline from supervision over the student's other private affairs at college...