Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supposed keynote of the issue is a "controversy" between two writers, one of whom opposes the prep schools and the other, the public schools. Neither of them is particularly well-informed on his subject...
Apparently both articles were arbitrarily assigned by the editor, who pays well. The anti-prep piece has the one saving grace of criticizing the medium and the audience for which it is written, in short, the Ivy myth. Aside from this quality, the author shows little concern with the disciplines of a private school education, and places too much emphasis on the sexual ineptitude of its products. The writer, however, gets off one classic generalization which almost makes his effort worthwhile: "In addition the society serving as the basis for the New England preparatory schools--th upperclass, urban East--cannot...
Roosevelt did not eat at the large common dining halls in college. For the freshman year, prep school graduates generally ate at their own special tables in Cambridge eating houses. "Our table, you will be glad to hear, began at lunch yesterday," he wrote to his mother, "and the crowd is a very nice one and next to the table of some of the other Grotonians...
...Nash's "The Most Proper Tone." It's about a successful history professor's effort to understand his thoroughly unintellectual football player son. Involved in this problem is the professor's general failure to communicate emotionally with other people or even himself. The action centers around a New England prep school football game in which the son takes a leading part...
...People from the fashionable prep schools winced when I said I came from Newburyport High School," he chuckled. "It took me a long time to convince them I was a moderately nice person...