Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admissions nightmare were to come true, Bender speculates various ways of narrowing down the field, each of them equally alarming. Harvard might decide to become a "New England College", concentrating its attention on the better prep schools and high schools, "letting Exeter do our geographical distribution for us." Or it could pick fifty reliable secondary schools throughout the country to supply students. Or it could ignore such things as "character" and "initiative" completely, sorting applications in an IBM machine in order to fill predetermined places...
...there's not nearly the chagrin in going to a second choice college there was fifteen years ago," MacDonald pointed out. "There are Harvard faculty with children in colleges they would barely have heard of a few years ago. In the prep schools, the Harvard reject goes off to a school slightly down the ladder along with some other Harvard rejects...
...Monro is actively campaigning for a program of proselytizing and emphasizing the worth of college. Several times he has called for "recruitment" of college-worthy students from low-income areas, students who rarely go beyond secondary school and who lack the preparation provided by college-oriented high schools and prep schools. Harvard thus seems to be playing one hand against the other: first, encouraging applications from ill-prepared students; and second, having to deny or question seriously admitting these applicants...
Harvard Freshman Philip Alston Stone, 18, wrote this fictional portrait of a Southern demagogue last year when he was still in prep school (Hotchkiss). No male Sagan, Novelist Stone is a chip off the writing desk occupied by William Faulkner, his famed fellow townsman in Oxford, Miss. In his rhetoric, country humor and nightmare vision of social change and violence. Novelist Stone resembles Faulkner, much as a shrunken head resembles a life-sized...
...many students, Monro stated, are taught in high school or prep school that there is one answer to every question. "If we attack this tendency and others in the Freshman year, however, we might put the student on the right track and save ourselves a lot of trouble later...