IN 1937, Life magazine sent a journalist to Vassar College to observe student life at the wealthiest of the Seven Sisters. Along with ho-hum details about academics, the ensuing article included a ...

In October 1980, Lisa Birnbach—along with Jonathan Roberts, Carol McD. Wallace, and Mason Wiley—released The Official Preppy Handbook, a satirical guide that, to this day, is considered a bible in all ...