Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from an SDS run course showing that, when average American family income was $8,000 a year, average Harvard income was $17,000, and average $DS income was $23,000. Virtually all the students arrested in University Hall were WSA members, and of these" approximately 50 per cent attended prep school, with the largest representation from the most exclusive ones like St. Paul's," Mr. Garin's calculated reply is that "Lipset presents no overwhelming evidence that bluebloods made up any more than 50 per cent of the 'militants.' "But why such a high proportion from an elite whose interests...
...taken by a lightly regarded Master Derby. For horse racing myopics who are chauvinist about Eastern racing, that feat came into focus last week, when Master Derby trudged his way through the slop to win the Blue Grass Stakes, his fifth consecutive victory and an important Derby prep...
...candidate has what he called "a lot of drive and energy" the committee would look at him even though his board scores may be in the 500s, and probably would debate the case "the head off a pin." But if a minority student has gone to a prep school all his life, he'll get no special consideration...
...Yardling tennis squad opened its season in the right court, gaining two easy wins this week. The team cruised past the Naval Academy Prep school winning 8-1. And yesterday the squad handed Choate a similar 8-1 defeat, powered by number one singles player ART SHERER'S 6-3, 6-3 victory...
Indeed, the make-up of undergraduates in Dudley (which includes the Harvard Co-ops and Apley Court residents) appears to be a mixture of extremes. It has more people on probation and more people graduating with high honors than any other House. It has the highest percentage of former prep and private school students: 51 per cent. Relatively speaking, it has a very small proportion of athletes and a high proportion of returning Radcliffe women who have interrupted their studies to have children. Seventy of its residents are married. ("Many more are virtually married, but not legally," says Marquand...