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...candidate has what he called "a lot of drive and energy" the committee would look at him even though his board scores may be in the 500s, and probably would debate the case "the head off a pin." But if a minority student has gone to a prep school all his life, he'll get no special consideration...
...Yardling tennis squad opened its season in the right court, gaining two easy wins this week. The team cruised past the Naval Academy Prep school winning 8-1. And yesterday the squad handed Choate a similar 8-1 defeat, powered by number one singles player ART SHERER'S 6-3, 6-3 victory...
Indeed, the make-up of undergraduates in Dudley (which includes the Harvard Co-ops and Apley Court residents) appears to be a mixture of extremes. It has more people on probation and more people graduating with high honors than any other House. It has the highest percentage of former prep and private school students: 51 per cent. Relatively speaking, it has a very small proportion of athletes and a high proportion of returning Radcliffe women who have interrupted their studies to have children. Seventy of its residents are married. ("Many more are virtually married, but not legally," says Marquand...
...helps his sell with a sincere, low-key delivery. When he needs help, he turns to distinguished Notre Dame alumni. In Dallas, he is likely to make home visits with Joe Haggar, whose family owns Haggar Co., the slacks manufacturer, and put up money for Haggar Stadium at Jesuit Prep...
Gill's narrative is broken (at no stylistic loss, in what is a string of vignettes anyway) by some memories of his prep school years, and some from the years at Yale, where the teachers had twinkles in their eyes. A chapter begins with "The reason I waited to marry..."and sidles into a glib and superficial commentary on sexual attitudes in the thirties, a commentary that is all the more awkward for being offered as revelation ("I perceive now that my unmarried teachers at Yale were probably less chaste than the rest of us.") And there are hints...