Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kids down from prep school for Easter vacation were puzzled by this heroine of another generation and probably confirmed in their judgment of that generation as hopelessly square. But the squares themselves glowed under Betty's apple-pie charm. They were perhaps a little disappointed by the show, but at 42 or thereabouts, Betty still has the legs everyone remembers-almost...
...hear all kinds of things about Tom Lehrer. In prep school, where everybody who has a brother at Harvard also has his record, you hear about how he got kicked out for criticizing the Administration. Some people will tell you he's a Communist, others think he was a professor of some prominence who was too much of a light-hearted roue to stay within the academic confines of Cambridge...
Last week Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., one of the oldest and richest prep schools in the U.S. (market value of its endowment: $28 million), announced an ambitious plan for getting on with its business. The school needs $6,060,000, said West Point-educated Headmaster John M. Kemper, and of that amount some $1,000,000 has already been pledged. Biggest project in view is the construction of five dormitories for $2,620,000. Other goals: $1,150,000 for a science building and $850,000 for a creative arts center. Perhaps the most important objective...
...would also be easy for Harvard to admit a larger proportion of students who have been given the opportunity to reach a very high level of academic achievement in prep schools or very good public schools. But the risk of admitting students of uncertain preparation but promising potential should certainly continue to be taken. On the one hand predictions of future success based on previous preparation and performance is not particularly reliable; moreover such a policy would weaken the healthy effects of geographical distribution...
...each. For all Russia's talk of mass education. Soviet schools-at least the sort to which visiting educators are taken-are planned for an elite class of students. In recent years only about 12% of Soviet students have graduated from the nation's ten-year (college prep) schools. And when Premier Khrushchev's learning-and-labor edict (TIME, Jan. 5) takes effect, the proportion probably will drop. In the U.S. 55% of the children who begin first grade go on to finish high school. American students most often are promoted automatically-although some schools, notably those...