Word: schoolish
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...sister university Harvard has always enjoyed the reputation of being an institution where a gentleman could acquire an education in a gentlemanly manner. At Harvard, so the generalization runs, there is no attempt at prep-schoolish supervision of students... Suddenly this happy picture is rudely shattered for us by an announcement by the Harvard History Department that henceforth students in History 1, a large survey course, will have their lecture and reading notes subjected to periodic scrutiny...
When asked their reasons for indorsing the petition, several members of the Class of 1937 replied that they considered the present arrangement of three required hours of exercise per week as "prep schoolish" and that they desired the privileges of the upperclassmen...
...present limitation was unwise because it subordinated the idea of study and research to mere attendance at classes, many of which were sleepy and stereotyped and had no real value as educational factors. Practically the entire student body agreed that the system in force, which was characterized as "grammar-schoolish" and "moss-covered", needed revision, but many contrary opinions were expressed as to the basis of the change. The first proposal was for unlimited cuts for upperclassmen with an average standing of 70 or better...
...course is misnamed, I think. Its very title is unattractive and uninspiring. It looks "prep-schoolish", and smells of the juvenile status which the freshman is proud to have left behind. If I were in authority I should call it "The Foundation Course", or something of that sort, to connote its large scope and significance. Then I should require it of every student--at any rate every freshman--entering the University. On no account or pretext should I allow it to be "anticipated" anywhere. It would have to be taken in the Harvard way, as a preparation for Harvard work...