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Word: preps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman eleven have played and won their first game. It was with the Lawrenceville prep. school. Score, two goals, two touchdowns, to three touchdowns. The eleven is improving rapidly, and is, perhaps, not far below the average freshman team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON. | 11/16/1882 | See Source »

...what is worse than all, is that they accuse me of being a Prep. I know there are very few worse sins than being a Prep., but really I can't help it; you've got to be one some time, and I thought I might best begin young and get through with it. The Miscellany says, as if to just crush the guilty one: "To be sure, the reported writer is a Prep.; but that is a fact of which the editors of the HARVARD HERALD are, presumably, not aware, and so Vassar College gets the credit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOR MISS NOUGAT! | 4/22/1882 | See Source »

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