Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guests of an Andover team that has staged an imposing 39-0 victory over new Hampton Academy; the Harvard Freshman football team faces a difficult task in overcoming its prep school rivals in the first game of the year, to be played at 2 o'clock today...
...Emily Hahn's first book, Seductio ad Absurdum, was not only funny but shrewd. Beginners Luck, her second, is more ambitious than a marshmallow. but a marshmallow it is. Blake had been kicked out of an Eastern prep school for being a menace to the community. Gin was a girl who had left home, was now a guide on New Mexican bus tours. Teddy had come from poor but respectable parents to be an artist in the Southwest. They all met in Santa Fe, played together, thought it would be glorious to run away to Mexico. So they did. Just...
...nearer Boston is Andover, where John's nephew. Samuel, founded Phillips Academy one year earlier. (His school later became "Phillips Academy at Andover" to distinguish it from his uncle's school at Exeter.) Exeter and Andover have flourished mightily, until today they are the twin giants of prep schools in size and in prestige. Other schools are certainly more fashionable, possibly more potent scholastically, improbably more prolific in first-string athletes. But no other schools have the glamour of Exeter and Andover, whose histories are as long as their rosters of students...
Ancient though it is. Exeter is changing today more rapidly than any other prep school. For last November Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, no Exeter man, gave $7,000,000 for a House plan, salary increases, and new dormitories (TIME, Dec. 1). Also active was the late Col. William Boyce Thompson, who spent much of his great mining wealth in giving Exeter a big modern gymnasium, athletic, science and administration buildings and, last year, $1,000,000 more (TIME, April 14, 1930). At present the school has, in addition to these, some 650 students from far & wide, 65 teachers, many handsome...
...year ago last fall, a group of undergraduates started a move for the initiation at Princeton of 150-pound football as a regular sport, with other colleges, prep schools and class teams as possible opponents. However, after a brief period of vigorous agitation, the idea was apparently forgotten for the time being. A short while later both Yale and Harvard adopted the game. With their example as an incentive, agitation was renewed here last fall only to die out again when no official action seemed forthcoming...