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...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 if he had foreseen his position as West Point's lone Negro. They "handed it to him" for never complaining, never showing any but exemplary conduct. Also satisfied that there had been no discrimination was Congressman De Priest. Promising to name another Negro, he asked: "If I don't appoint men of my own race to the Academy, who will...
...Harvard, too, presented a strong defense and the Clubmen's famed forward line of Chase. Hilliard and Curtis had a hard time trying to break through. Several long shots by Stubbs and Cunningham provided the only scares the Crimson threw into the former University stars while H. Bigelow's lone sally through the Harvard sextet was the Clubmen's only threat...
Claim of the Black Duck's lone survivor: no warnings to halt were given; the crew "didn't have a chance...
...lone Arlington goal was scored in the last period when Thomas caught the Harvard goalie completely out of the cage...
...Wiesbaden and at Bingen last week the last British troops shouldered their haversacks, marched out of Germany. Left behind was a lone Briton, one William Seeds, Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commissioner since 1928, who must represent the dignity and power of the British Empire in Germany until the last French and Belgian troops have quit the third Rhineland zone in June...