Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with virtually no application-blank qualifications for the job. Head of a faculty in which Ph.D.'s are the rule, Francis Keppel '38 holds only on A. B. And although the Education School concentrates on training teachers and administrators for the nation's public schools, Keppel is a prep school graduate who has never take a formal course in education. He probably could not even qualify to teach in a public high school, where a master's degree is a pre-requisite...
...Benjamin Heckscher, twice interscholastic squash champion and undefeated against prep school competition in three year of competition at Choate. He has played and beaten every player on this year's Crimson varsity with the exception of first man Larry Brownell...
...second revolt crept into public notice in a relatively obscure way: through the mail columns of the Daily Princetonians.The writer of the original letter, name withheld by request, began the whole turor. "I'm sending my son to Williams," NWBR announced, "because by 1980 Princeton will be a glorified prep school, revered by 3000 grinds and namby-pambys . . . To make Princeton over into an intellectual haven, the little men in Nassan Hall have two things they must do. First they must keep the Princeton students here on campus. Second, they must give them nothing to do at Princeton except study...
...applicants little knowing which type they're getting. William B. Craig, assistant Director of Admissions, emphasizes that policy in his office rarely changes. Just one decade ago, distribution in the entering classes was top-heavy with private school graduates. 80 per cent of the early 1940 classes were from prep schools; the figure is down now 55 per cent. "Many people, particularly our own graduates, think we are making special compensations for high school boys," Craig said. "This is not true...
...thank you,' and 'No, thank you' just like a civilized human being . . . One night he did homework until midnight and then rushed off in the morning without breakfast. I made inquiry that evening: 'What if you didn't have your prep (that's English for homework)? . . . What if you went without it?' . . . 'Well, the Head . . . would send you down to his study. He wouldn't talk or beg you to do your work. He would just give you six of the best . . . That's six wallops with his birch cane...