Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Discovered in the late afternoon, lugging a bale of hay into his new horse barn, the author bears no trace of the morning's necktie. He is fairly tall, fairly well on into his forties (6 ft., 48 years). He looks like a prep-school teacher, and was once; he established the religion department at Exeter, and taught there for several years. Buechner has eight horses on the payroll, apparently the minimum for a city man who moves to the country with a wife and three young daughters. The girls also have a goat, a tribe of chickens...
Expensive, good quality clothing for men can be found at the Coop, J. August and Co. (1320 Mass Ave), and at several small stores in Brattle Square. For the women and men who can wear boys' sizes The Prep Shop (31 Church St.) is a good idea. Boys' size shirts are a bargain...
...fifth premise, however, Armor found "strong evidence that middle-class suburban prep schools have an important 'channeling' effect not found in black schools . . . that black students attending such schools may have doors opened for them that are closed to students attending predominantly black schools...
...Deerfield Academy for 66 years; in Deerfield, Mass. Boyden was a 23-year-old college graduate when he joined the struggling, 14-student day school as its headmaster and only teacher in 1902. Both grew from the partnership-Deerfield into one of the nation's most prestigious prep schools (enrollment 507), Boyden into one of the most respected educators of his time...
...nice to win, but for Maroney it was nothing new. The 6'3", 200-pounder was one of the most sought after oarsmen in the country while he was at St. Joseph's Prep School and had already been tabbed as one of the fourth or fifth best port oars in the country this season from his scores in an Olympic Development Program workout...