Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's Varsity squad of 12 contains two men who never played basketball before they came to Harvard and five others who were regular bench-warmers in high school. It's getting so that in a couple of years the Indoor Athletic Building will become a haven for eager prep substitutes. You should be at least a second All-State man to survive one cut anywhere else...
Riverside, second largest U. S. military prep school (first, Culver), is a remarkable institution. It has two establishments. For five months (in fall and spring) it lives Spartanly in the Blue Ridge foothills at Gainesville, Ga.; each winter it goes for three months to its castle in Florida. Most remarkable thing about Riverside is its headmaster, General Sandy Beaver...
...tough as his looks. Born the son of a bartender, he grew up in a tough section of Augusta, Ga., once beat up his school principal. At college (University of Georgia), he was a star tackle and baseball player, also made Phi Beta Kappa. After teaching at three other prep schools, he became Riverside's president in 1913. At first things went badly. By 1917 his school was reduced to two buildings, two pupils. Then Mr. Beaver went to work...
...rules were set up against employment of students by tutoring schools, and then in double-quick time the new Supervisors' Bureau was established with the intent that one day it would completely do away with all the skull-duggery in the Square. Contact was established with parents and with prep schools in order that Freshmen might be warned away from wolves and vipers and their ilk. Freshmen were required to hand in their History I notes. There were other things which made sense only in the light of the new attitude on tutoring schools...