Word: preps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, along with the Varsity, the Freshmen meet their Bulldog counterparts. On the basis of that old racetrack bogey, comparative records, Hanford's hirelings should be favored. Exeter whipped the little Eli 6 to 4, while the Crimson took the measure of the prep school. But just in case the Freshmen were getting cocky. Hanford connived with Bob Maddux Monday afternoon and the Varsity proceeded to maul '51 squad...
...companion match, the Freshmen also face their Yale counterparts and, according to comparative records of the two squads, should come out on top. The Crimson first-year men have taken all nine of their official matches, while the Bulldogs have hardly been tested against four local prep schools...
...diet. They were given no choice of courses, only the nutritious table d'hóte (mathematics, literature, philosophy, science and a language) that Yale picked out for them. Last week Yale announced that the 40 freshmen had done three points better than their expected grades (based on prep-school marks and scholastic aptitude tests), while the rest of the class, choosing cafeteria-style whatever electives they wanted, had done only what was expected of them...
...itinerant Methodist preacher, John Ransom was born and raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects...
...untested Jayvee tennis squad journeys to Andover today to play the tennis terror of the local prep school courts. Coach Corey Winn's team will be striving for a 1,000 average this afternoon with which to confront Babson Institute in Thursday's match...