Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seniors are belatedly showing their own back-to-basics concern. Tod McConahay, who pumps gas five nights a week to save money for college, is taking English Lab, a brush-up grammar course, in addition to regular college prep courses. "Grammar?I just can't do it," he confesses. "Somewhere along the line, somebody screwed up." Classmate Jim Jordahl is also taking English Lab. "Deep down, most people feel that requirements should be stricter," he says. "If you leave what courses you take up to the school, you won't be that well...
...behind all Level 1 sports in the waiting line to get the field lined and have our nets put up," said coach Bob Scalise. "The Buildings and Grounds people just don't always have time to get to our field and prep it before a game...
...years ago I was a well-sought "candidate:" WASPy looks, elite prep school, a fair supply of alligator shirts, and a home address which--though not a "golden suburb"--was obscure enough not to be objectionable. For philosophic and admittedly economic reasons I decided not to join; though pressure on both sides was intense (from St. Paul's classmates, freshman friends, and parents on one side, and House friends and common sense on the other). Following my decision I became very antagonistic toward anything having to do with clubs and the elitism they represented. (I still have several friends...
...that to his 100-yard-plus performance in last week's 29-14 Yardling triumph over Naval Academy Prep and you begin to understand why the former Boston Clobe "Schoolboy Player of the Year" award winner is being touted as the future transfusion for Harvard's anemic varsity backfield...
...Harvard gridder Lou Bernieri was there too, only he was watching from the sidelines. Last year's starting middle guard is an assistant coach at Andover this fall, as well as teaching English on the side. When asked what aspect of Harvard he's brought to the prep school scene, Lou replied "All I know is that I've been teaching for a month now and I haven't given out anything below a B-minus...