Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprising result of the survey was the apparent superiority shown by Andover and Exeter in their preparation of students for college over other prep schools, most of which did little better than high schools...
Finally, let us pray that the practice of certain local prep schools is equally abhorrent to the powers-of-change. Before each game, clucking masters herd the schoolboys--all of them--into a long line without the gates. They march to their seats, through the turnstiles, singing a lusty (sic) chorus of the old school song...
...McLane himself sees it, it was more of a catch-up than a comeback. Seven years ago, at 15, he was a national outdoor titleholder at distances ranging from 400 to 1,500 meters. At 17, as a crewcut, prep schoolboy (Andover), he became the Olympic 1,500-meter champion. But from then on, Jimmy McLane spent a good part of his swimming time gulping the backwash of such stars as Japan's Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish") Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Hawaii's Ford Konno. It was not because he slowed down; the others just...
...summer following his graduation from Exeter, Lee obtained a job working on the grounds crew at Iowa State Teachers College, one of the wrestling centers of the United States, where he "learned more in two months than in all the time in prep school." Though the team at Iowa State wasn't officially in training, wrestling is a 12 month sport there, and someone was always willing to teach or work out with...
...varied 13-game schedule includes games with Quonset Naval Base, which the Yale varsity includes on its schedule, but on the other hand, Huntington Academy, favorite whipping boy of the local prep schools...