Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked if the West Pointers were amused at Harvard's surprise at the allotment of spending money given the cadet corps for their stay in Cambridge last fall, Captain Jones said, "Perhaps they played a bit of bridge on the way up and pooled their money that way. It seems a shame to give them only $1 in Boston and $5 in New York, as is being done for the Dartmouth-Notre Dame game...
...Cadet Murrell, whose steady line-crashing last fall was an effective complement of Cagle's flashy runs, will try grips in the 175-pound class with C. D. Newhart '31, substitute tackle on the 1929 University eleven; and in the unlimited class, Parham, second string Army tackle, will engage Captain Nathaniel Warner '31, center on the second University football squad. Both men now weigh about 190 pounds, and an interesting encounter is expected...
Tactless newsgatherers stabbed with questions. Cadet Parham, more tactful than they, replied: "I got a square deal. I was given very good treatment. The officers were my friends and cadets, too, both from the North and South." Had he been happy? "Well, take any young fellow away from home out where men are men. He's going to be lonesome and homesick sometimes. Some of them resigned." Would he make a racial issue of his failure? "I should...
...Cadet Parham, appointed from Chicago by Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest, entered the Academy last summer (TIME, July 15). Almost at once he fell behind his class in mathematics (algebra and geometry). Once when he was about to resign Congressman De Priest came to see him, urged him to "stick it out." He started special coaching, stopped after a week. His grades in mathematics were so consistently low that his classmates suspected he was "boning foundation" (inviting discharge by failing to work). They felt that, though there was no hazing, no discrimination, he would not have entered the Academy...
Hutchinson, the Captain of the Army team played on the Cadet football eleven in the Stadium last fall, as did Messinger, who plays right guard on the quintet. The former played in the backfield, while Messinger played end. HARVARD WEST POINT Captain Wenner, l.f. r.g., Messinger Mahady, r.f. l.g., Abell Burns or Pierce, c. c., Strother Rex or Burns, l.g. r.f., Krueger Nido, r.g. l.f., Captain Hutchinson