Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preparatory school graduates and sons of alumni had the greatest likelihood of going on probation for academic reasons, the Dean's report continued. Four per cent of the prep school graduates had their connection severed, double the figure for public school students. While alumni sons comprise only 20 percent of the class of '62, over 34 per cent of those withdrawing were from Harvard families...
...roughest seas, set off powerful firecrackers (one of which ruptured his eardrum). He often buys clothes for his wife, personally outfitted the entire wedding party of one of his three daughters, all married (he also has three sons, Edgar Jr., 17, Henry, 15, and Kim, 11, in Eastern prep schools). Whether Edgar and his wife are ensconced in their six-bedroom, Spanish-style home in Lafayette, Calif, or speeding around the world, being with him, says Mrs. Kaiser, is "living with mayhem-and enjoying...
...banker was needed. One of the new bankers was Henry Clay Alexander. He was not saddled with the marks of wealth, caste and privilege. He was born in humble circumstances, the son of a grain and feed merchant in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He did not attend the best Eastern prep schools, had worked his way through Vanderbilt University, saved enough to go on to Yale Law School. He had not been trained to be a banker, joined the Manhattan law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed as a promising trainee, did so well that he became a partner...
...present no major institution appears ready to adopt the four-quarter program. From secondary and prep schools to colleges, parents and students seem set against it; and where the pressure of admissions permits the institution to dictate terms, the problem of fixed income from endowment and of success based on an established formula seem insurmountable...
Also, since most well-prepared applicants come from either prep schools or bette than average suburban high schools, the presently broad socio-economic base of the College would contract. "Harvard would be cutting itself off," said Bender, "from a group we've worked hard...