Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general world-wide war scare. No one in the Army today was surprised at his selection. But in April 1898, one would have got you a thousand that Malin (pronounced Maylin) Craig would never emerge at the Army's top. That was the month and year that Cadet Craig was graduated from the Military Academy at the bottom of his class. Chances are that he might not even have graduated from West Point had not the No. 1 man of his class admired the heady way he played football, offered to coach him through. Malin Craig's progress...
...Lincoln High School. He is the son of William E. Bean, cashier for the Omaha branch of the John Deere Plow Company. He ranked first in his class in scholarship. He was active in debating, dramatics, the glee club, the Latin club, and the literary society, and was a cadet captain in the R. O. T. C. He won first place in the Iowa State extemporaneous speaking contest, first place in the University of South Dakota interstate oratorical contest for students in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota, and won first place in the Council Bluffs original oratory contest...
Latin School has a new building in the Boston Fens. Inside is an auditorium seating 2,300 where students last week enacted a pageant of the school's history. Outside is a parade ground where 1,700 boys marched last week in cadet uniforms. But Latin School boys learn their lesson as they always have-by grinding long hours over their books. Headmaster Powers hates "frills" with all the vigor of his Yankee predecessors. Harvard's President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell turned up at the tercentenary exercises to praise Latin School's "insistence on hard work...
...graduated first in his class ami First Captain of the Cadet Corps, which is all you can do at West Point, a record matching those of John Joseph Pershing and Charles Pelot Summerall...
...Cadet MacArthur did graduate first in his class but why drag in Summerall who graduated No. 20 and Pershing who graduated No. 30 in his class...