Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the Clubs' problems are not so dramatic as wars or depressions. Rather they are the result of gradual changes in the College itself. With rising standards of admission at Harvard, less and less "club material" from the Eastern prep schools is being accepted into the University. And the "preppies" that do come are often so interested in their academic work or else forced to spend so much time on their studies that they don't use the Club as much more than an occasional convenience. There is a good deal of grumbling from graduates in the Club lounges that...
Today the Clubs' problems are not so dramatic as wars or depressions. Rather they are the result of gradual changes in the College itself. With rising standards of admission at Harvard, less and less "club material" from the Eastern prep schools is being accepted into the University. And the "preppies" that do come are often so interested in their academic work or else forced to spend so much time on their studies that they don't use the Club as much more than an occasional convenience. There is a good deal of grumbling from graduates in the Club lounges that...
Backs can run only through holes manufactured by linemen, and the Yardlings have a very competent forward wall, anchored by Captain Bill Swinford, an all-State guard from Oklahoma. Darwin Wile and Mike Sheridan make a pair of 200-pound tackles, and Massachusetts all-Prep Tony Watters holds down the center position...
Viscount Montgomery's line was war. Sandhurst. 3½ years with the regular Army, and active service in France in World War I were more than prep schools on the way to promotion. In marching infantry prose, his book makes it plain that when he took command of the British Eighth Army in Africa in World War II, he was ready. According to him, and to history, he made Desert Fox Rommel fight Montgomery's kind of fight, and Monty won. Was he too tidy? Did all the pieces on his chess board have to be perfectly placed...
...paper, Reed had the right qualifications--an ancestry dating back to Patrick Henry, and a "good" prep school diploma--but apparently his personality clashed too often with the ruling lords...