Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked their reasons for indorsing the petition, several members of the Class of 1937 replied that they considered the present arrangement of three required hours of exercise per week as "prep schoolish" and that they desired the privileges of the upperclassmen...
William Pepper Watts '35, of Elkin's Park, Pennsylvania, was elected captain of the Varsity hockey team for next season at a meeting of the lettermen yesterday. Watts prepared for Harvard at New Prep. At the same time, Howard Frank Gillette, Jr. '35, of Chicago, Illinois, became Varsity hockey manager. Gillette automatically assumes the office, having been assistant manager this year. He prepared at St. Mark...
...some sections there are as many as fifty and the average number is twenty-five or over. In a section of over twenty-five, adequate discussion and frequent recitation are virtually impossible. At a time when the student is making the transition from the highly individual classroom instruction of prep school to the personal contact afforded by the tutorial conferences, he is apt to be lost in the shuffle and consequently to have difficulty in apprehending the aims of tutorial work and the best methods for obtaining from it the maximum of value...
...Dean recognizes the rising scholastic standards of recent years, correctly attributes them to the tutorial system and general examinations, and concludes that the time has come when University Hall can safely afford to scrap much of the prep-school machinery of the past. Among the existing institutions nominated for oblivion are the checking up in attendance at classes, the recording of April and November grades, and the probation system. Whether the abolition of probation would serve any very useful purpose is questionable, but the other two reforms are eminently to be desired and, as the Dean points out, there...
...News reporter cornered Big Bill Tilden last week and asked him for an interview. Mr. Tilden must have been pretty hard up for ideas because he made some amazing statements. "Yale," he declared, "is my favorite college because it is the perfect balance between the 'rah-rah' over-grown prep-school attitude of Princeton and the pseudo, 'to-hell-with-everything' attitude of Harvard." Having gotten off to a rousing start, he reached a dramatic climax with the statement, "Right now I would be willing to bet that Lawrenceville could beat Yale. Harvard, or Princeton in tennis. This...