Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ergil was hired on a provisional basis last fall to teach art and math. He had taught a year at Stanford, three years at the Army's language center at Monterey, a year at a New York junior college and two years at a San Francisco prep school, but lacked the education-course credits required for a permanent post in California public schools. Within days after he showed up, he startled faculty and students...
...freshman lacrosse team will probably have to suffer the indignity of another loss today when it faces a good Exeter team at 3 p.m. The Yardling team improves with every practice session, but they still are not the calibre of the good prep schools...
When eight high school and prep school teachers who had worked on the course took it back to their classrooms for testing, the reaction was prompt and positive. Item: at Exeter, Physics Teacher Judson Cross hustled into the shower room one night to break up what sounded like a water fight, found the showers full on and his boys shouting with glee as they "stopped" drops in flight by peering through simple stroboscopes made in the course...
After a spell in a top Soviet prep school, he went on to two other educational experiences-a brief exile in Kazakhstan (for no reason except that all Germans had to go) and an unhappy love affair (his girl was recruited into the NKVD...
...wryly called "The Vine") is at the absolute summit; then follow, in no particular order, Tiger Inn, Colonial ("The Pillars"), Cap and Gown ("The Cap"), and Cottage ("The Cheese")--among whose former members have been both F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Foster Dulles. Graduates of the most famous Eastern prep schools, the scions of stock hallowed by generations of fame and money, and other individuals who can sell themselves well in fifteen minutes or so, are nearly assured admission to one of these. To make Ivy is social apotheosis...