Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caricatured college "types" immediately come to mind: the scientist whose world becomes identified with the laboratory, for whom equations assume a greater importance than people; or the prep school socialites whose snobberies are merely confirmed and intensified during four years in Cambridge. These extremes, if they exist at all, are far outnumbered by students who do think about morality, and occasionally even worry over it, but whose thinking is sporadic and undirected and whose worries are easily pushed aside by more immediate problems, academic, social, or financial...
...headmaster of one of the nation's oldest prep schools, Andover's John M. Kemper-Western High School, Washington...
...family's summer home in New Rochelle, N.Y., Columbus learned from the family carpenter how to use tools, built his first boat (called the Sponge, because it leaked) at the age of eleven. When he was in prep school he was spending school vacations sailing in waters as dangerous as the Bay of Fundy...
...past seasons, freshman squads have been sparked by a few experienced players from New England Prep Schools--but after six or seven first-line players the team has had little depth. Consequently, the Yardlings usually suffer losing seasons with a few outstanding performances as their chief consolation...
Victories over Exeter and Deerfield--prep school teams who generally have little trouble with the Yardlings--provide some testimony to the ability of the freshman lacrosse team. Saturday's 10 to 8 loss to Andover should be one of its few defeats this season...