Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabbit" Johannsen elected himself a one-man committee to do something about it, and offered his spare time to selling Canadian youth on the muscle-building virtues of cross-country skiing. Last week, deep in the snow-smothered Laurentians at St. Sauveur, Quebec, about 80 boys from 18 Canadian prep schools turned out for the second annual Jack Rabbit Ski Championship. It was an energetic tribute to "Pop" Johannsen's successful salesmanship...
More Crimson records could be set tonight in the I.A.B. pool than were established against Yale here last March. For undefeated Princeton guarantees the varsity swimming team "a very good tussle," according to Crimson coach Hal Ulen, at 8:45 p.m. while Williston Academy, the best prep school team in the country, meets the freshmen in the preliminary...
Gordon led the Yardlings as they routed Huntington Prep yesterday, 80 to 15, winning the 600 yard...
...team will go for its fourteenth straight win against Andover at 4 p.m. today on Watson Rink. The Crimson has one of its most important games of the year Saturday when they meet the Princeton Tigers in N.J. Against Andover today, the yardlings will face one of the strongest prep school teams in the East, a squad beaten only once this year...
...From his prep school (Choate) to Navy boot training to Princeton, Adlai was followed by his parents' extraordinarily protective love. When, in summer camp, Adlai seemed to be going in for athletics too much, Pop wrote: "I want you to stop this right away. The purpose of your being there [is] to get you in good physical condition so you can have your tonsils removed without any harm." And when Adlai reported that he had taken up smoking, Mother wrote: "My Laddie Boy ... I hope I can show you the futility of getting the tobacco habit." (Today Stevenson...