Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman football team, who headed the Gunnery School baseball team last year; J. W. Paul '34, star Groton backstop; and John Swarts '34, who played catcher two years for Milton Academy. A. S. Murphy '34, former Boston Latin School hurler, and J. V. Strong '34 of Rutgers Prep School are the only pitchers with outstanding records...
Knute Rockne Jr., 12, 90 lb., held the ball for kickoffs, chirped the signals, lay back as safety man, slapped the bigger boys on the back and his Pembroke prep school "Midgets" beat the Kansas City "Bearcats" 12 to 0 before and after the first half of the Iowa State-Kansas game at Lawrence...
Just what the eventual effects of this policy may be it is difficult to say, but at present it seems to be decidedly a move in the right direction, and ought to be of considerable assistance in bridging the gap which exists between prep-school and university...
...example of the various attempts to correlate secondary school and college education and to make the transition casier for the entering freshman is the sending out of a letter by the college office to the headmasters of certain prep schools asking them for recommendations as to the abilities of the candidates for Harvard, whether the boy should take four or five courses, and even asking for advice on specific courses which the boy should take...
...average of mass instruction. It probably offers as many opportunities as, the other introductory courses in science, but no more. They all fall through the necessity of establishing a strict norm in order to grade the students as easily as possible. Therefore there is much unnecessary routine, much prep school discipline, and not a little superficiality of method...