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'''Prep school''' is an informal name for a "preparatory school." In the United States, it usually refers to a private secondary school, often a boarding school, which prepares students for college.  
 
'''Prep school''' is an informal name for a "preparatory school." In the United States, it usually refers to a private secondary school, often a boarding school, which prepares students for college.  
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During the 1800s, most college curricula were centered around the classics, and a substantial mastery of Latin and Greek was a requirement for admission. Brown's 1836-7 catalog, for example, says that entrants must
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During the 1800s, most college curricula were centered around the classics, and a substantial mastery of Latin and Greek was a requirement for admission. Brown University's 1836-7 catalog, for example, says that entrants must
 
:be thoroughly acquainted with the Grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, be able to construe and parse and of the following books, namely:&mdash;Jacob's Greek Reader, the Historical Books of the New Testament, or three Books of Xenophon's Cyropædia, C&aelig;sars Commentaries, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, and translate English into Latin correctly.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?vid=00Dr0QOabAjYypfexv&id=4xEWeUleibIC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22brown+university%22&as_brr=1#PPA13,M1 The Catalogue of Brown University], 1836</ref>
 
:be thoroughly acquainted with the Grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, be able to construe and parse and of the following books, namely:&mdash;Jacob's Greek Reader, the Historical Books of the New Testament, or three Books of Xenophon's Cyropædia, C&aelig;sars Commentaries, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, and translate English into Latin correctly.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?vid=00Dr0QOabAjYypfexv&id=4xEWeUleibIC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22brown+university%22&as_brr=1#PPA13,M1 The Catalogue of Brown University], 1836</ref>
  
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