Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-aged prep night at the shrine of Boston High School hockey, the Arena, and as the faithful alumni ruined their pin-striped behinds on the bubble-gum parked by generations of Southie and Eastie fans, Harvard slaughtered Yale in a predictable mismatch...
...failure of prep schools to continue to insure their students automatic acceptances to prestigious colleges (an old reason...
...partial failure of prep schools to take the lead in educational innovation (a new reason...
Andover's own experience is enough to frighten the striped tie off the many prep school alumni who have confidently sent off their sons and their generous checks to their old schools for generations...
Despite the occasional note of optimism voiced by admissions directors to placate their alumni and salve their wounded spirits, the outlook is bleak for the prep schools. If the economic squeeze isn't damaging enough, the growing rebellion of once awed or indifferent thirteen-year-olds should be enough to doom a few schools and hurt, if not cripple, many others...