Word: preps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Prep...
Died. The Rev. George Clair St. John, 88, longtime (1908-47) headmaster of Choate, who turned a tiny Connecticut establishment of 35 students into one of the U.S.'s foremost prep schools with an enrollment of 600 and the highest of academic rankings; of cancer; in Hobe Sound, Fla. "The Old Head," as his boys called him, forged Choate in his image; strongly Episcopal in his insistence on compulsory chapel, staunchly ethical in his devotion to the honor system, fresh and human in his habit of occasionally dismissing classes for a hike in the mountains. John F. Kennedy...
Brewery Classrooms. Even Rutgers is poorly supported. At the main campus in New Brunswick, its history department conducts classes in a converted century-old house and a more ancient prep-school building. A Rutgers branch in Newark operates in a converted brewery and a former razor-blade factory. Salaries are tied to state civil service scales, adequate for instructors but, at a maximum of $16,000, too low to keep top professors. Raided by the State University of New York and others, New Jersey last year made an exception and offered a few professors up to $24,000, but, insists...
...making more progress than anyone has a right to hope for. For one thing, many of them do not look like jails any more. Often set in wooded hills, their small residential cottages spaced around a main administration and classroom building, they bear a surface resemblance to private prep schools. Many have open gates, unlocked doors, barless windows that lift easily...
Another obstacle is the culture shock that some feel coming to Harvard from homes like the Imperial Valley. To counter this, ten per cent of the fund is spent putting some students through a New England prep school for a year before they begin college. One student liked the small town atmosphere so much that be turned down Harvard and arranged a scholarship for himself to Amherst...