Word: grottlesex
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...school graduates drinking together. To witness this unusual event, FM pushed through a crowd of Brooks Brothers clad rowing enthusiasts and stepped into Reunion Village, a cluster of tents on the south bank of the Charles River that proudly displayed the names of posh prep schools and universities (think Grottlesex and Ivys). Rowers and crew aficionados lounged on plastic folding chairs, sipping Hefeweizen Unfiltered Wheat Beer out of plastic cups as shells smoothly zipped by. The North Yarmouth Academy tent proudly displayed an assortment of M&M’s and Tootsie Roll Pops amid a seasonal arrangement of pumpkins...
...homes of the elite with a few "commoners" sprinkled in. In those days, students could pick their freshman roommates and many prep-school students and New York upper-crust chose to live together. They flocked to Eliot and Lowell in groups which were, says Miller, "pretty exclusively St. Grottlesex...
...alumni that links so many high schools to Harvard is largely absent. And, although the admissions office has gotten better, Harvard is largely absent. And, although the admissions office has gotten better, Harvard does not automatically send recruiters to these schools in the way that they do to St. Grottlesex. Recognizing this, Harvard made the January I deadline flexible for those students found in the later, second-round search. This is exactly the kind of effective attempt at "level[ing] the procedural playing field" that the staff claims to support. To the staff, however, deadlines are apparently more important than...
...duty to malign agents who represent books he considers vulgar. He has called Janklow the literary equivalent of a heroin dealer for handling novels by authors like Judith Krantz. "They have no lasting value and two years after they've been published are worth nothing," he says with a Grottlesex stammer...
...Spee and their kindred are given over now more to fraternity-style carousing and less to gentility (though tuxedos remain de rigger). The preppie movement-the defiant wearing of madras and espadrilles-amounted to not so much in the way of attitudes, and the St. Grottlesex tribe remains easily ignoble. What was once the Harvard culture is now a Harvard subculture, and a vaguely ridiculous one at that...