Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brewster earned high marks for transforming Yale from an elitist institution for the conventional education of affluent prep school graduates into an innovative coeducational campus, where more than 50% of the students get financial aid-and he gets credit for doing it without lowering graduation standards in the process. Brewster has also long held views that Agnew could applaud, such as his concern that "physical disruption and intimidation from the New Left" pose a "frontal challenge" to universities, and that "reason must be honored above the clash of crude and noisy enthusiasms and antipathies." He has argued that "the teacher...
...would be great fun but irrelevant to the issue of the war. For better or worse, the universities are permanently caught up in the cash nexus of the federal government. To disentangle Washington and Cambridge would sabotage Harvard financially and force it to acquire an even more elitist, prep-school character. The truly political solution is to throw out the government, not prohibit university "complicity" with that government. In like manner, it would be dangerous to repeal the draft and turn the Pentagon loose with a professional volunteer army. Like the draft, university "complicity" makes the government sensitive and vulnerable...
Harvard's first three games were target practice. The Crimson ran up increasingly lopsided scores against prep school teams. bombing Deerfield. 13-5; Exeter, 18-5; and Governor Dummer, 23-1. The freshmen slacked off in the next two, but neither was close as UMass fell 11-4, and Dartmouth lost 13-6, yesterday...
...rich kid. He has parents who can send him to St. Paul's to prep, to Harvard, to Austria every Christmas to ski in the Alps. He is witty, he is bright, he is good looking, he is strong. But he has a problem: he loves Flo and she will not reciprocate...
Housed in a renovated supermarket, Harlem Prep was established in 1967 by New York's Urban League to salvage dropouts (or "pushouts," as ghetto youths say bitterly). Thus far, Harlem Prep has sent 105 of its graduates on to such colleges as Antioch, Cornell, Howard and Harvard. Says Bruce: "At Harlem Prep, we're all here to learn. I got hung up on the whole public-school system. It was so formal. But here the students and teachers are on a first-name basis; there are no classrooms, no walls. For a class, they just pull chairs around...