Word: grottlesex
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...side-pocket exists, atrophied, isolated, inexplicable as the appendix in the digestive tract . . . Like the appendix, it gave nothing to and took nothing from the undergraduate body, yet it was never ruptured and could not be removed by surgery . . . For want of a name some called it 'the St. Grottlesex Crowd...
...institution on the Charles is a miasma of leftists and people in-ordinately concerned with something sexual called parietal rules. If he attended one of the dances (and were he in a carping mood), he might report that The Harvard Man is an objectionable drunk with a St. Grottlesex accent...
...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...
...Yardling, who lists Saint Grottlesex as his prep school, has tutored in nine courses to the tune of $400 per annum, if a certain one of the 700 Freshman replies on the tutoring school questionnaire can be believed...