Word: preps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Addiss and Crofut, former classmates at Vermont's Putney prep school, teamed up in 1960 and spent one entire year on a State Department tour of Africa and the Far East "getting to the little villages where the big orchestras and ballet companies can't go." Surviving "the unspeakable pangs of dysentery," they traveled by Jeep, elephant, water buffalo, dugout canoe and bamboo raft, performed before a collective audience of half a million persons and collected hundreds of native songs and instruments...
...boys are better trained than most Southern high school students of either race," says Harold Owens of Andover, one of the half-dozen leading prep schools that have accepted St. Aug students for intensive summer courses. Adds Charles McCarthy, director of a cooperative effort by the Ivy League schools to spot bright, underprivileged students: "St. Augustine produces high-quality candidates who don't disappoint the colleges once they're admitted." Peter Briggs, a freshman admissions officer at Harvard, finds St. Aug boys "interesting, constructive guys...
Merritt, however, doesn't even want to speculate that far in advance. The squad's next opponent is Williston, a prep school power. Merritt describes the team's chances as "50-50 right now. This will be decided on our second and third places," he added. And Shrout? Merritt predicted, "I very definitely expect him to break some more records...
Every time a squash player graduates from Harvard, Barnaby faces just that situation. He has to develop a replacement from among players who never saw a squash racquet before coming to Harvard, or prep school graduates whose experience is at best limited...
...gently rubbed his eyebrows, and only rarely looked at his interviewers. Later when he addressed a larger group, he appeared at ease--but never excited, never given to rhetorical flourishes. At times, as he answered the endless questions about the future of Republicanism, he seemed a tolerant New England prep school headmaster-patiently explaining what he had explained so many times before...