Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education," says Headmaster Edward Hall of the Hill School, "is no longer a hereditary right like a membership in a club. It is a prize to be won against increasingly rigorous competition." Though the child of the old grad may still have a slight advantage, even top private Eastern prep schools can no longer guarantee him a place in the college of his choice. Says Headmaster Hall: "It's kind of hard on the Yale alumnus who develops a kid as bright as his father but no brighter...
Statistics-From-All-Over: The Yale Daily News--"Did somebody say that basketball is not a 'gentleman's sport'? Of the 125 players listed on Ivy cage rosters, only 14 are prep school products..., On the other hand, 93 of the 120 Pentagonal League hockey players boast diplomas from prep schools...
...freshman squad boasts two of the top prep-school players of last year in Gerry Emmett and Charlie Polletti. At Brooks School, Emmett was Interscholastic Squash Champion and number one man on the Brooks squad. Polletti, an Exeter graduate, was a member of an Exeter team which was one of the finest in New England last year...
Representatives of 17 high and prep schools will arrive in Cambridge at 4:30 p.m., and, after registering for the Conference, will be taken on tours of the College and will discuss their paper with a CRIMSON editor who has studied it this fall...
Student editors from 17 high and prep school newspapers will attend the CRIMSON's first annual Conference on Scholastic Journalism this Friday and Saturday, President John G. Wofford '57 announced yesterday...