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Word: preps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshmen started the season with losses to Tabor, Deerfield, and Exeter, three prep schools which Pickett lists among the strongest teams in the East. All three schools field varsity teams with extensive experience in intramural play and the Exeter farm system has managed to produce championship teams for several years...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 5/3/1955 | See Source »

...freshman team avenged an indoor defeat by defeating Exeter, 63 to 54, at the prep school's track. The Yardlings' best performances were turned in by Pete Reider, who won both the mile and half mile. The top single effort was Exonian Joe Gately's 21-2 broad jump...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Elis, Crimson, BU Dominate New England Relays Field | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...anything definite can be said about the revolutionary's hero, himself, John Reed it is that he simply was not a product of any institution, let alone Harvard. He came to Cambridge in 1906, a product of a proper Eastern prep school and one of the wealthiest families in Oregon. During the fourteen years following, he had graduated, spent months in jail, become a famous American war correspondent, written several books, taken a leading part in the Russian revolution, been elected to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow, died of typhus in Russia, and been buried...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Its Effects on a Few Have Produced a Harvard Myth | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

Coach A1 Wilson's freshman track team will open its outdoor season this afternoon when it travels to Andover. In the indoor season the Yardling were defeated by prep school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Run at Andover | 4/16/1955 | See Source »

...nice to have a school of individualists, hundreds of students who were big men in prep and high schools. But it is sad when a college that is supposed to produce leaders has none of its own. This must be reinodied. Secret societies should be encouraged. Class presidents and team captains should receive the honor that they deserve. Special courses for politicians and party bosses should be formed. Libraries should display books on popularity. Harvard must organize. B. Matthew Olin Caldwell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.M.O.C. | 4/13/1955 | See Source »

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