Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during his four years, will undoubtedly be elected to Phi Beta Kappa this year. His career could not have been more expertly designed to get him a good job after graduation if it had been arranged by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Kelley's current plan is to become a prep-school teacher and football coach. Said he last week as he left the field after his last and greatest game: "Gee, I'm sorry my career is over! I feel sort of funny. I guess I ought to go off somewhere and be by myself, alone. I want...
...players about what a tough life they have: "Goe whiz, Bill, you have a pretty tough life of it out for football every afternoon and then you're all fagged out so you can't study." This sense of defeatism or what have you is seeping down into the prep schools and causing a bunch of those who otherwise might come to Harvard to take a chance on some other college, not because they want to, but because, well, they're just afraid...
...give up the monthly lectures must be interpreted in a similar light. Indeed, the monthly lectures were the single thin thread of organization in the whole course, and many students thought the addresses, though necessarily sketchy the best part of English A. Now all that remains is a glorified prep school course, whose bloom is not always apparent...
...practice the art, and it is pointed out that its cultivation vastly increases the value of an individual player. Almost all of the kickers prefer to place rather than drop kick. Coach Harlow says that he has no preference what-soever, but that almost all players come from prep and high schools trained in the former...
ENDS NameAge Wgt Hgt Prep School Burchard William L. 17 150 5.10 Gunnery Casey, Thomas W. 18 160 5.10 Boston Latin Cordingley, William A. 19 180 5.11 Exeter Duane, George E. 17 173 6. Newton High Fagerland, Robert 19 175 6.2 Arlington High Hamill, Hunt 19 160 6. Milton Academy Hemp, Richard H. 17 147 5.10 Berkeley High Hinchliff, William E. 18 170 6.1 Pomfret Hoar, Sherman 19 165 6.1 Exeter Kelley, Richard W. 18 150 5.11 Somerville High Kelly Barton 18 160 6.1 Groton Kennedy, John F. 19 165 6. Choate Maguire, Albert 20 175 5.11 Hebron (Worcester) MacIssac...