Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple turned away from the Indians long enough to persuade the War Department to detail a regular Army officer as Commandant of Cadets to the school, named it for a rich and philanthropic Boston physician, Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck. One of the oldest prep schools west of the Mississippi, Shattuck is also one of the most famed military schools in the land...
When Oyster Bay and Chevy Chase were champing impatiently at Woodrow Wilson's "watchful waiting," the most popular sport of U. S. college boys and prep-school seniors was to join the Lafayette Escadrille or drive an ambulance for the Allies. Quentin Roosevelt flew a plane, and lesser hotbloods like Ernest Hemingway piloted Model T Fords. From more than 100 colleges and universities and nearly every State went 2,500 volunteers to work for American Field Service, serve on every front, retrieve half a million wounded in their bouncing little trucks, collect more than 250 medals...
...Junior League has a spineless program; it overrates the importance of its 35,000 membership ("More than that number attend a Joe Louis fight"); the League is nothing but a prep school for the Daughters of the American Revolution; Leaguers play around the fringes of social work; they spend at one party what many a family lives on for a whole year; they could be criticized for not cleaning up politics, for not working for birth control, for not admitting Negroes as members; he never saw them anywhere except on Florida beaches or at dog shows...
Severely handicapped by injuries, probation, and lack of equipment, Coach Tom Campion's Yardling lacrosse men will be definitely the underdogs tomorrow when they face a strong Exeter team, last year's New England prep school champions...
...Yale-Pennsylvania game will mark the debut in league competition of Yale's sensational sophomore left hander, Ted Harrison, who, although he has pitched only seven innings thus far this year, has demonstrated that he has lost none of the skill that made him an outstanding hurler in prep school and as a freshman. Pennsylvania, which met Columbia yesterday (Friday) lost its first two league games...