Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contend with ill-feelings toward either one, so Step 3 happened relatively effortlessly. But it's not all that simple. Since stereotyping is rampant at Harvard, people tend to deny parts of themselves that might be associated with some innocuous stereotype. For example, though I knew nothing about prep schools when I got to Harvard, I soon realized that they are the source of endless snide remarks. I met preppies who were truly embarrassed about their background. (Of course, there were those who prided themselves on where they had prepped.) In retrospect, I can only suggest facing up to where...
Josiah Bunting, 34, joined the Marines at 17 after he was expelled from prep school. Finding his métier in the military, the Philadelphia-born Bunting entered Virginia Military Institute and earned an Army commission, a Rhodes scholarship and a disillusioning tour of duty in Viet Nam. While teaching history at West Point, "Si" Bunting wrote a bestselling antimilitary novel based on that experience (The Lionheads). In 1972 he resigned from
...school in this case happened to be a local prep academy that tries hard to make its students eligible for scholarships to Britain's more prestigious private schools. But Dann says that the problem of overworking youngsters is almost as bad in Britain's state-run public schools. The trouble is, he notes, "parents feel they must get the most out of their children, and they never stop to count the cost. How can anyone ever justify inducing insomnia in a ten-year...
...criticizes doctors who prescribe tranquilizers and sedatives for children, and urges them to speak out against the cruelty of overcompetitiveness. "We know you can teach a baby to swim before it can walk," he adds, "but what on earth for?" One Oxford don adjudged the current crop from English prep schools to be "all burnt out" by the time they get to the university. Laments Dann: "How bitter it must be to have shot one's bolt...
...year-old prig in the middle fifties passes my comprehension. Prescott claims that his journal is a documentary of a life style of his time, and thereby assumes a social importance beyond that which it possessed intrinsically, but it isn't and it doesn't. Prescott's alcoholic prep-school degeneracy did not, as he himself admits, characterize all Harvard any more then than it does now. His freshman year was a private thing that he went through--and it is a private thing that, in different forms, many people go through. Merely detailing the particular form in which Prescott...