Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second only to Harvard in its ability to draw off the cream of high and prep school crop was Stanford. The western school's 26, however, was far behind the 43 men who attended Harvard...
...This student symbolizes the merits and dangers of the progressive word. She has apparently been steeped in it, at home and at prep school. She has a respect for intellectual activity, but has no real understanding of it. She reads widely, rapidly, enthusiastically. She has some imagination and some agility, but is basically uninterested except in the answer, the latest word. She likes people, wants to be liked, is a warm, motherly sort of thing, will put herself to considerable trouble to carry off a situation happily, and has a good deal of infectious buoyancy...
...years as headmaster, he has come to know thousands of boys, and the dying town academy he took over in 1902 has gradually grown into one of the top U.S. prep schools. There, the Head has remained the only thing that never changed. He still keeps his open office in the hallway of the main building, still dashes about in his buggy, still governs his school (475 students) as if it had never grown at all. Forever open to new ideas, Frank Boyden still clings affectionately to old ones. "If they must be destroyed," says...
Meanwhile, the freshmen A and B tennis teams play at Exeter. The A team is and-feated so far the season against prep-school and freshman competition...
Freshman Coach Corey Wynn is also taking down ten men to play in the 'B' match. The lineup is not yet certain for all these positions, but the perennial New England prep school champions are not expected to have an unusually strong seeon dsquad...