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While the Crimson Varsity was losing to the coast Guard, the B-team was belting out a 7 to 4 win over a team from constitution wharf on the scrub diamond...
Lowell House, however, has not been idle when their opposition has declined to appear, as they have managed to play two pick-up games. On Friday they beat Company E in a scrub game and yesterday they were utterly and irretrievably shellacked by an all-star aggregation culled from Companies A, B, and C, by the score...
...Literally: Corsican scrub, traditional refuge for lawbreakers; now the term for Frenchmen hiding from Occupation demands. Most Maquis haunt the Haute-Savoie, near Switzerland...
They man the pleasure cruisers which have been turned over to the Coast Guard Auxiliary, fill out depleted crews of regular Coast Guard cutters, squeegee paint, scrub decks, inspect buoys, board incoming merchantmen and seal their radios, run signal lights, patrol docks and beaches. In their idle time between their twelve-hour-a-week duty and their regular civilian jobs, the hottest zealots study seamanship, gunnery and navigation...
There was the small man with the big remains that Bragg's were colorful. Their muscles, the close combat instructor and fiendish ("scrub barracks tonight") platoon sergeant. He had the "cadre complex" and had it bad, and was continually nasty in a high-pitched way. Then came the first cool day, when he winsomely confided that he was an ex-English teacher, that his greatest ambition was to come to Harvard after the war as a graduate student, "and just read for a year...