Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the former prep school stars reporting were Robert Saltonstall Jr. '33, and W. C. Everett '33 both of last year's Exeter team...
...opinion that over-indulgence in confinement "with as fine a group of men as will be associated with the House as Tutors and with as comfortable and agreeable surroundings as the Houses would afford" may not be as healthy as it is agreeable. It would be well suited to prep schools or graduate schools or any other highly specialized institutions. It would indeed produce a highly specialized sort of life, like that in the English universities or the small colleges in America. Indeed it seems that college life is inevitably too specialized, and that one thinks quite naturally...
...Boston Latin Lewis, G. L., Jr. '30 Tackle 20 188 6. Exeter Mason, T. F. '30 Back 22 170 6. Milton Mays, E. A., Jr. '32 Back 20 155 5.10 Taft Moushegian, V. '32 End 20 165 5.11 Lowell High Myerson, H. M. '32 Guard 19 195 5.11 New Prep. Newhart, C. D. '31 Guard 24 185 5.10 Ohio O'Connell, R. H. '30 End 26 185 6. Exeter Ogden, R. S. '31 End 19 174 6. Milton Putnam, E. T., Jr. ocC. Back 21 175 5.11 Milton Record, E. E. '32 End 20 190 6. Brookline High Richards...
Then there is the college-musical or "Good News" type of film, of which "Sweetie"--where the action, as a matter of fact, takes place in a prep school, though the films have little interest in the difference--is considerably the best. In it the songs are introduced by making the hero an embryonic song writer and the heroine a chorus girl who inherited the school, and by letting the students sing and dance all over the place at social functions, at the Big Game and while Miss Helen Kane is supposed to be taking a music lesson...
...preparatory school race, Newark Prep nosed out the strong Hebron Academy after a close race. The winners made a score of 35, gaining third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh positions. Hebron won-second, fourth, and sixth, but lost out in total when its last two runners finished fifteenth and seventeenth respectively...