Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousands of boys and men who have known him, it was difficult to imagine Hotchkiss without The Duke. Though the school already enjoyed a solid reputation when he took over, he has kept its prestige steadily mounting. Of all U.S. prep schools, few, if any, can beat the standards Hotchkiss...
...editorial before the Exeter game in 1887 when Harvard frequently tangled with the larger prep schools, the Daily Crimson had written. "Exeter is by no means invincible as many seem to think, and if the team goes into the game with a fixed determination to win and not in a fainthearted spirit, there are good grounds that the squad may wrest a hard-contested victory from an Academy which now holds the foremost place in football among the preparatory schools of New England...
...Yardling football team, in past years stocked with a surplus of outstanding high school and prep school stars, this season faces the prospect of a plain, mediocre year minus such leaders...
Because Arthur Tuckerman is a fairly good and very glib writer, his first novel will be on the best seller lists for many weeks. When the Old School Tie pretends to very little, it is an entertaining if innocuous comedy about an American boy in an English prep school, but when it hints at a dying generation, a dying Europe, and impending doom, the novel descends to unattractive superficiality...
Thomas Jefferson's fine old University of Virginia is a state-run institution, but it has long maintained the flavor of a small, exclusive private college. Traditionally, it has drawn more big wheels from prep schools than public schools, has been the happy hunting ground for sons of the F.F.V.s (First Families of Virginia) and members of the F.F.U. (First Fraternities of the University). But in recent years the gentleman's-club tradition has found itself challenged by a serious-minded administration and by a more down-to-earth sector of the student body. Last spring the campus...