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Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz was born in Kustrin, Prussia, in 1849. At the age of 16 he became a cadet in the so-called Royal Prussian Navy, which then consisted of a handful of sham frigates.* In 1897, by steady regular promotion he had become German Naval Secretary and an intimate friend of the Kaiser. In 1900 his "von" was registered in the Almanach de Gotha. In 1911 he was appointed Grand Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. All this time, with the Kaiser's enthusiastic approval he was turning British sea lords livid by building...
Play started with a rush. The Cadet first string line, Wing, Brandt, and Haskell, skillfully managing the strange ponles, showed perfect team work in outscoring the Harvard riders, 9 to 1 1-2 in the first three chukkers. Each of the Soldiers scored three goals. The Crimson players were unable to make headway, although the line-up of Crispin Cooke '32, E. K. Jenkins '31, and W. F. Luton '32 was stronger than that of the previous game...
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...
...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...