Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decreased in the past few years. "We go out of our way not to find out about an applicant's ethnic background," he said, "but a 10 per cent drop is not impossible. There has been a 10 per cent drop in admissions from several traditional areas, such as prep schools...
Something is not quite right even at the state's cushiest "correctional facilities" (bureaucratese for prisons), some of which could pass for prep schools. At no-walls Tehachapi, near Bakersfield, inmates can keep pianos in their unbarred rooms, get weekend passes and join their wives at "motels" on the lush green premises. Yet Tehachapi is full of repeaters, prison-dependent men who soon violate their paroles and return...
...relay team, Nick Leone, has a virus and may not be able to take part in the meet. Leone is an outstanding 600-yard runner with a best time of 1:12, as well as a member of the relay team. He was also the New England prep school champion...
...Must Harvard be a professional prep school? Students are seen as unpleasant vacuums to be stuffed as soon as possible. The individual sensibility capable of learning something in a manner that may even prove stimulating to a teacher is treated as an introducer in Academia. Consequently that student hides and sometimes dies...
Today Studds, a 33-year-old former prep school teacher and McCarthy delegate, spends most of his time on the phone at his parents' home in suburban Cohasset, trying to figure out how to pay off a debt of nearly $20,000-all that's left of a nine-month campaign that ended on election day leaving him 1700 votes short of becoming the first Democrat since 1912 to represent Massachusetts' 12th Congressional District...