While attending
Yale University, Prentice became a member of the
Skull and Bones society and was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated in 1928. During his years at Yale, Prentice had accumulated debts and consequently was cut off from his parents. He worked in
Boston for a wholesale hardware firm for four years to make enough money to return to Yale. Upon his return to the
Ivy League school, Prentice continued to work to support himself. He graduated from
Yale Law School in 1932 and practiced
law with a Chicago law firm throughout the 1930s. In March 1941, before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Prentice volunteered in the
U.S. Army as a
private. While serving in the
Pacific Theatre of
World War II, he became a
captain in the
artillery. Prentice became a cattle breeder and is known as a pioneer of
artificial insemination in farm animals as a means of improving their genetic pool. == Personal life ==