Word: scouts
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...received the first A.B. granted by the College to a Black student. "Rumors inevitably sprang up among his classmates as to his background; he was variously represented as an escaped slave, a genius who had come straight from the cotton field to the College, as a scout in the Union Army, as the son of a rebel general, and so on," the book quotes a Harvard Harvard Alumni Bulletin of 1964. Radcliffe did not grant its first B.A. to a Black woman until 1898, when Alberta V. Scott graduated...
...scout for Indiana, Dave Twardzik, notes the new economy of Erving's moves, and smiles. Before Twardzik was a starting guard for an N.B.A. champion in Portland, he was a substitute for the Virginia Squires of the old American Basketball Association, headlined in the early '70s by an Afro-puffed University of Massachusetts underclassman from Roosevelt, N.Y. "I only played 20 minutes a game, and I didn't mind," Twardzik says, "because I could sit and enjoy Doc. I remember thinking 'They're paying me to watch this guy play.' On the bench, we'd elbow each other and whisper...
...year-old kids carrying guns." Anthony and others claim that the widespread sale and use of crack has promoted warfare among young, heavily armed drug dealers. Notes Harry Hamilton, chief investigator at the morgue: "Kids can make $900 a week standing on a street corner whistling when a scout car goes by. There are plenty of 15- or 16-year-olds doing things like that, but they never...
While it can be exhilarating to play well against Harvard's best players, it can also be painful. "It can be frustrating when you really get creamed," said one scout-teamer...
Coaches are more likely to yell than to applaud when the scout team achieves its minor triumphs...