Word: grottlesex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that has abandoned specialized entrance examinations and emphasized National Scholarships and geographical distribution. On the other is the half of each Freshman class that still comes from private schools, about 60 percent of this half ordinarily being graduates of Groton, St. Paul's, Middlesex, Milton, and others of the "Grottlesex" schools. This dichotomy is not uniquely Harvard's, although it is uniquely marked at Harvard. It is a split that exists in some degree in many of the nation's colleges, and probably to a significant degree in other eastern universities. But where other colleges manage in four years...
...Gummere will point out that boys at these "Grottlesex" schools are well prepared, but he and his committee have no illusions or misgivings about the frequently found product, the "gentleman's C man," as Gummere phrased it last year in a speech made at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Choate School...