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Word: preps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harriers have out-run five freshman and prep-school teams to win two dual meets, and they expect no trouble from Dartmouth in the 1 p.m. contest. Captain Robert Harrison and Jared Fitzgerald, the star runners so far, are rated first and second place scorers in the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Play Green In Track and Soccer | 10/25/1957 | See Source »

There, in the shadowed quiet of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dr. Porcello flung the rocks at a stained-glass window. He missed, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Later he learned that his daughter's marriage to her 30-year-old, former prep school English teacher had taken place three hours before Porcello, a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, and his Roman Catholic wife hadn't objected to their daughter's choice, merely wanted her to wait until she was older. Last week, in New York Magistrate's court, contrite Dr. Porcello ("I am glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unreasonable Parents | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...Prince Charles, Osborne went on to ask: "Is no one aghast at the thought of a lifetime of reading about that first day at prep school, the measles, the first dance, the wedding, and finally the beauty of the ceremonial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The New Boy | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...Kent, a high-Episcopal prep school in Connecticut, Cozzens found that if he could not command his schoolmates' respect as an athlete, he could awe them in other ways: "I was the boy intellectual who didn't believe in God, scorned healthy exercise, and subscribed to the New Republic. But Kent marked me for life. If there's hard work to be done and I get out of it, I feel extremely guilty. That's the attitude Father Sill inculcated in us." The late Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill, founder and headmaster of Kent, was a thunderous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

With these exceptions, the lower-level courses fulfill their function very well, for all but the exceptionally prepared freshmen who come to Harvard already generally educated in Western culture, ethical and political For a fairly large number from Eastern prep schools, these courses add little to the student's already generous background...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: General Education: Its Qualified Success | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

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