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General references: Minority Report of Faculty to Board of Overseers, Jan. 6, 1891: Prof. Mac Vane in Harvard Monthly March, '91; in Pres. "Shortening and Enriching the Grammar School Course," pamphlet Pres. Eliot's address before N. E. Ass. of Coll. and Prep. Schools...
...freshman eleven have played and won their first game. It was with the Lawrenceville prep. school. Score, two goals, two touchdowns, to three touchdowns. The eleven is improving rapidly, and is, perhaps, not far below the average freshman team...
...what is worse than all, is that they accuse me of being a Prep. I know there are very few worse sins than being a Prep., but really I can't help it; you've got to be one some time, and I thought I might best begin young and get through with it. The Miscellany says, as if to just crush the guilty one: "To be sure, the reported writer is a Prep.; but that is a fact of which the editors of the HARVARD HERALD are, presumably, not aware, and so Vassar College gets the credit...