Word: prep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Relatively untouched by the waves of public opinion now hitting the public schools, small independent schools like Middlesex can continue to operate pretty much as they please. If the front-page place of education in the past eight months has had any effect in relation to the prep school, it has been to diminish the public conception of the private school as a "nest of snobs." While the larger private school, or even the very good public school, may offer a better and more varied textbook education, neither can provide the individual attention and the chance for personal development which...
Some became increasingly college directed; they were little more than informal prep schools. Others specialized in problem children, usually of rich parents. But neither of these functions has the urgency of which the schools had been born, though they were still important...
Back in the states at Columbia Prep, and later at the University of Portland and Spokane's Gonzaga University, Mike played baseball (first base), gave up a chance to turn pro, went on instead to Notre Dame for his law degree. After that, he put in 3-½-years on Navy desk duty, was discharged a yeoman third class...
...Atchison, Kans. and earned an M.A. in sociology at the University of Notre Dame; he was determined to let some fresh air and light into the academic stronghold of St. Bernard. First, he banded together with a group of younger priests, some of whom he had known in prep school. One of these, Irish-born Father Malachy Shanaghan, who is now head of St. Bernard's English department and finishing a Ph.D. thesis on Novelist William Faulkner, describes the change they put into effect: "In the past, if a monk went to a university, it was thought he would...
...advises, "First squeeze your teacher as you would a lemon, and when there is no more lemon juice, then you can complain. I don't know a single teacher in this school who has been squeezed of what he knows." Two months ago, a group of college prep students pestered Ergil to play lemon. Result: twice a week, after school hours, he conducts a seminar in philosophy. Ergil gets no added pay for the course, and students get no course credit, but attendance is large, even on afternoons when the baseball team plays at home. A Mexican farm laborer...