Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to all pre-season reports, the squad was not expected to enjoy much success this fall. Statistics reveal, its personnel to be both young and small, and studded with few prep-school stars. But at the close of practice last evening, Coach "Skip" Stahley voiced the first promising words of the season...
Below is the roster of Freshman football players who reported last week: NAMEAge Wt, Ht. Prep. School Town ENDS Butler, George P 18 153 5.11 Romford Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Corcoran, William J. 17 180 6. Cambridge High Cambridge Coughlan, Joseph J. 17 140 6.1 Cambridge Latin Cambridge Dodge, Henry W. 20 150 6. Exeter Omaha, Neb. Glidden, John C. 19 170 5.11 Exeter Englewood, N. J. Haydock, George G. 18 175 6.2 Milton Hewlett, N. Y. Herter, Christian A. Jr. 18 190 6.5 St. Paul's Boston Hinton, William H. 18 168 6.2 Putney School Putney, Vt. Hurley, Morris...
Most large college legacies, spotted as far in advance and nursed as diligently by their beneficiaries as prep-school football stars, are equally devoid of surprise. Last week officials of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N. Y., contemplating news of a legacy whose eventual value might reach $6,000,000, professed utter amazement. Said President William Otis Hotchkiss: "All I know about it is what I read in the papers...
Meanwhile the A. B. See Co. kept on making elevators first in Brooklyn and then in Jersey City, prospered in its quiet way. Son Alva B. See entered the business after graduating from presumably the least punishing prep school the Sees could find (Blair Academy), worked up to succeed his father as president in 1930. Biggest job the company ever handled was the installation of 24 elevators in New York County Courthouse, cost: $400,000. Its biggest job at present is being done for the Library of Congress. First disclosure of the company's financial status occurred last week...
Harvard University has a great responsibility towards the Freshman Class in seeing that the Class as a whole overcomes the difficult barrier between school and college as successfully as possible. The gap between prep and high school and college standards of instruction is a large one; consequently the transition is difficult...