Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grips" with a minority student's background. If a candidate has what he calls "a lot of drive and energy" and gone to a tough school the committee will look at him, even though his board scores are in the 500s. If a minority student has gone to a prep school all his life, he'll get no special consideration...
...tempting as it is to blame the administration and the Faculty for the failings of student government at Harvard, they are not the only guilty parties. Students are perhaps equally responsible for the present system of impotent committees. Unlike most high schools or prep schools, Harvard is not a self-enclosed community where students spend eight hours a day, five days a week studying and playing for four years. And unlike high school, being elected to a student committee at Harvard does not mean you are the most popular or best-looking kid in the class. Most students couldn...
There the dean's office breaks down the freshmen into several broad categories such as prep or public school background and science or art preferences. Then each takes a chunk of the class and pores over each housing request until they get a feel for their charges. Then they step up to the bargaining table. By trading with other advisers they try to put together as many harmonious rooms as possible, rooms with common interests and traits and little potential conflict...
...earlier volume, Exiles, Arlen was a prep school Telemachus, searching for the truth about his late parent, author of The Green Hat and other best-selling novels of the '20s, who had succumbed to writer's block, deprecation and obscurity. In that poignant volume the son could only compile small sorrows and acts of redemption. However acute, Exiles was the work of a miniaturist. In Passage to Ararat, Arlen set himself a near-Homeric task: the recovery of a forgotten people. To accomplish that mission he has performed a series of brilliancies: his research is irreproachable...
...students attend juku in the hope of bettering their chances of getting into the top junior and senior high schools, some of which accept only one in 20 applicants. Millions more go to other juku to prepare for college. The recent coming of affluence has also brought juku that prep children for kindergarten-and even some that ease the way into other juku...