Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They looked unbelieving. "Expect they'll send someone to foul up the presses again. They did that once. Sent a little boy in an old trenchcoat who claimed he was from some prep school. Only catch was, heh heh, one of our men know him. By God, I'n in no mood for such foolishness. If a CRIMSON editor shows up, by God, I'll bash his head in right against the presses...
...H.A.A. also argues that schedules are a two-part pact, but any prep school or local freshman team will be willing to play on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning; Princeton and Yale run their schedules in this way and find little trouble...
...Lowell's major achievement was not in providing for a student's academic activities; it was Lowell who pushed through the House system that knit undergraduate Harvard into a social whole. Before the houses, there was tremendous difference between the wealthy and the poor, the prep school and the high school alumni. Students on the Gold Coast kept valets; those living in the Yard stoked furnaces...
...sprinkling finds its way to Business School, and a few eyeing a university teaching post, attack an MA degree. One or two still enter theological seminary, harkening back to the days before 1928 when there was still a Colgate Divinity School and the college was a sort of ecclesiastic prep school. The 65 per cent majority stolidly settles in well-paying jobs, generally in the non-technical end of business and industry...
When fall comes, the students will go right on with such chores. Though they will study the usual prep-school courses and get their share of skiing, riding and playing, they will also plant, sew, dig irrigation ditches, scrub floors, haul wood, tend horses, clear paths, pound nails, rake leaves, paint walls, and do any other manual labor the Holdens can think...