Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Times's agony column, British sportsmen were agonized to read this advertisement: "?70 BURSARY* OFFERED at first-class Prep. School to BOY promising at games...
...Notre Dame there is no de-emphasis of football. Coach Elmer Layden has a coast-to-coast collection of 81 players on his varsity squad, 42 of whom were captains of their prep-school or high-school football teams. Starting the season with 177 varsity candidates, he weeded them out until he had three complete teams, any one of which the late, great Knute Rockne, his teacher, might have been proud of. Victor over Kansas, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Carnegie Tech, Army, Navy and Minnesota on successive Saturdays, last week Notre Dame added Northwestern to its string-and incidentally exhibited...
...extremely important aspect. It was envisioned solely as a means of guiding freshmen of above-average ability, who had already chosen tentative fields of concentration, in advanced work for which they might find the time. Thus, Dean's List men for whom the freshman year largely repeated their prep school work would not be "leveled down" by standardization, but would be given an opportunity to express their bent earlier in their college careers...
...season against Lynn Y.M.C.A. December 16. Mentor Peterson as usual has preserved an angelic silence about anything concerning prospects of his charges, but it is understood that, as in the case of the Varsity, most of his material will have to be built up, there being a dearth of prep-school stars in '42 at present...
...railroad where Petit Vag examined everything with the careful eye of a visiting official. The railroaders were alternately amazed, amused, and flattered by his youthful attentions. Then, after an expensive ara of toy electric trains, which were never really realistic enough, Petit Vag was shipped off to prep school, bribed into going chiefly by the fact that it entailed a long train ride...