Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Galbraith, as Ferry's assistant, was expected to circle the applicant's school. Each young man's prep school became his primary recommendation--for in those days everyone at Harvard was man, and most had gone to prep school...
...book lends insight into what has changed--and what hasn't--at one of Harvard's all-male final clubs. Prep school background, region and legacy status do not appear to be the sole determinants of membership they may once have been, but the book shows that they remain factors...
...Gentleman's C." Before World War II, remembers Russell H. Peck '43, "there were lots of nice, pleasant, capable, wellborn folks who didn't think it was good to work too hard." These were the "gentlemen," wealthy young men for whom Harvard was simply a pleasant interlude between prep school and prominence. According to Edward M. Tuckerman '43, they were the "party boys." Mentally transported into the world of his youth, Tuckerman slips into the present tense. "They don't work hard, they just go to deb parties," he says wistfully. (Deb parties...
...wore all the right prep-school ties...
...enough to strike fear in the heart of any high school student. But into the nightmare has come Up Your Score, an SAT-prep book recently rewritten by Michael R. Colton...