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...award, from the Kemper Fund, was one of just three scholarships to study at the Massachusetts prep school given in all of France during...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Jacques Hugon: Swim Manager Carves Niche | 3/4/1981 | See Source »

...Hackett, swimming has been a year round commitment for 13 years. He's spent the last ten years under Bernal who coached him at Fordham Prep before they both arrived on the Harvard scene in the fall of 1977, and during the off season as a member of Bernal's Gators. Those ten years have been serious. Dead serious...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Bobby Hackett | 2/28/1981 | See Source »

JOHN O'HARA said that school spirit was horse shit. The day before he was to graduate as valedictorian of Niagara University Prep School, he visited every bar in town. The next day, the school took away his diploma...

Author: By Robert F. Deitch, | Title: A Rage To Live | 2/25/1981 | See Source »

Ironically, MacShane might best be criticized by quoting O'Hara's description of a meeting of English professors from eastern universities; "it sounded like two hours of prep school boys talking about fucking...

Author: By Robert F. Deitch, | Title: A Rage To Live | 2/25/1981 | See Source »

...test. He thus ignores the point that a properly "basic" test is designed to detect severe shortcomings in the school system. And afterarguing convincingly that the tendency for schools to coach for tests rather then teach subjects is harmful, his "Beating the System" chapter heartily recomments SAT prep course plugs Stanley Kaplan by name, and adds that in prepping properly for the tests a student should pick up a core of basic knowledge...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: The ABCs of SATs | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

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