Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During Glimp's term as dean, then, many of the criteria usually thought reliable indicators of admission to Harvard have been a little, if not greatly, shaken--high test scores, the "right" prep school, even being the son of a Harvard man. What has not been shaken, and so is becoming of more and more importance, is a category the admissions staff calls "personal quality." They rate it, as they do the other categories, on a scale of 1 to 6, and a 1, plus a satisfactory academic record, is practically a guarantee of admission...
...today no such situation exists. Public education in the United States is second to none, and no one is foolish enough to assert that people attend prep schools because of educational equality back home. For, indeed, where do the bulk of such students come? From Brookline and Glen Cove, from Darien and Shaker Heights--the very areas with some of the best public secondary schools in the nation. The graduates of these schools come to Cambridge and New Haven and find themselves in no way less "prepared" than their neighbors who raced off to what Dean Sizer calls "independent" schools...
...rivals have given us less competition this year," Lee said, "which has allowed us to do fairly decently." Lee blamed the increased competition from new teams like Rutgers, which have replaced the prep school opponents of past years, as contributing to this team's unusually poor season...
...relative anonymity is ironic in view of his prewar background, which promised prominence as well as accomplishment. Helms's father was an aluminum sales executive who upon retirement took his family to live in Europe. The move stretched Richard's prep schooling from Orange, N.J., to Switzerland and Germany and gave him lifelong fluency in French and German. He returned to the U.S. to attend Williams College, class of 1935. Few students accumulated more honors: a Phi Beta Kappa key, the presidency of his class and of the senior honor society, the editorship of the student newspaper...
Other new ideas at Fordham include a "33" program to put eighth-grade youngsters into the university's prep school, run them through a B.A. in just six years instead of the normal nine. A new Communication Arts Center hopes to acquire Huntington Hartford's $7,400,000 Gallery of Modern Art on Manhattan's Columbus Circle at the price of assuming Hartford's $3,800,000 mortgage. Fordham recently opened a four-year college for women, the first such coordinate college at an American Catholic university...