Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplement whatever scholarships they win. Since 1948 Nessfeness has placed 4,000 boys and girls in 300 interracial colleges. In only two years its Southern Project, which concentrates on the Deep South, has placed 520. At the same time, the service has begun sending promising students to Eastern prep schools. The students have done astonishingly well: of the 520 Southern Project students, only four had dropped out for academic reasons by last June. Some Nessfeness case histories...
...Pink-Cheeked Apollo." In a sense Chicago-born Arthur Radford was bigger than his immediate job even when, as a Navy-struck youngster at an Annapolis prep school, he used to cut morning classes, rent a boat and head across the Severn to watch such naval-aviation pioneers as Jack Towers and Albert C. Read in their weird helmets and goggles, maneuvering Curtiss pushers through the bright Maryland sky. At the Naval Academy Arthur did well in the famous class of 1916 that produced more than 40 admirals and made such a hit at Academy hops that his class Lucky...
...small printed circular was certainly sedate enough to come from such a blue-blooded prep school as Massachusetts' Groton. But to the hundreds of alumni who received it in the mail last week it was, to say the least, something of a shock. "As desegregation is clearly the prime social duty facing the country today," said the circular, "Groton wishes to do all a school can towards complete eradication of the evil of segregation ... In consistence with Christian doctrine and the teachings of the Bible and in consistence with the human beliefs of two of Groton's most...
Turning to the personality of the Ivy League man, he noted the "Inner Complacency which is common in the Ivy League," and a "uniformity of the sort that makes an Ivy League campus look as if its students had all gone to the same prep school at Conformity Corners...
Supporters of Lamont DuPont proclaim, "Why not vote DuPont? He owns us anyway." His qualifications: "prep school graduate, sports car owner, social register, one of the boys...