Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christmas win over the Yardlings, enter the game with a 9-2 record, compared to Harvard's 6-1 slate. B.C.'s losses were a 5-1 fluke to a Brown goalie who made 54 saves and a defeat by the same score to powerful New Prep. The Prep school's victory came over the Christmas vacation, when several B.C. players, including the entire first line, were missing...
...normal high school curriculum is a daily kaleidoscope of unrelated courses: a class in English, perhaps followed by history, civics and then the arts, each session unrelated to the other. Emulating liberal arts colleges and the better prep schools, some public high schools are now offering broad-scale courses in humanities that seek to relate these disciplines, and to show their relevance to the kind of decisions students must make in their own lives...
...generous treatment he received at the hands of his father with the harsh and demanding rule that Lord Randolph imposed upon the boy Winston. This is not the Churchill who was frustrated at Yalta but the Churchill who was flogged for stealing sugar from the pantry at his prep school, the Churchill who collected toy soldiers (at a few shillings a platoon...
Whatever the causes of the reduction in service, it makes very little sense to cut the freshman off entirely, while continuing to play maid to the upperclassmen. Only one year removed from the well-inspected rooms of home or prep-school, the youngest class is the least experienced in "keeping house" and the least likely to take advantage of the self-service offer. Instead of cleaning freshman toilet bowls more frequently--three times a week now, as compared with once a week previously the caretaking services might worry about the piles of debris collecting on the floors...
...prep school for political power in Mississippi is the state university law school. The last four Mississippi Governors studied there; three-fourths of the state's lawyers attended Ole Miss; and there are enough of the school's grads in the Mississippi senate to control all legislation in the state. Ole Miss produced eight of the nine members of the Mississippi Supreme Court and all three of the state's federal district judges, including Claude F. Clayton, who last week firmly ordered do-nothing police to protect Negro schoolchildren from savage white mobs in Grenada...