Word: brawn
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...next night several starving Freshmen put brains above brawn and infiltrated Sophomore ranks through the windows. Some "donned dinks and passed through unmolested." Dean of the College F. B. R. Godolphin hailed the revival. Both classes have "established their integrity" by demonstrating "the beginnings of a spirit of class unity which hasn't been seen on the campus since before the war," the Dean said...
...they did it was something to behold. Lacking brawn, they have to be nimble. And jack-nimble is what they are -and as well-drilled as the Rockettes. Michigan's sleight-of-hand repertory is a baffling assortment of double reverses, buck-reverse laterals, crisscrosses, quick-hits and spins from seven different formations. Sometimes, watching from the side lines, even Coach Crisler isn't sure which Michigan man has the ball. Michigan plays one team on offense, one on defense...
...century-old dream. An English colony failed at Betajoque, a French colony in Maracaibo; 30 miles from Caracas, the capital, is the blond, impoverished remnant of a 19th Century German colony. But the old dream lives on: now Venezuela hopes to push back her frontier with the brains & brawn of Europe's displaced persons...
Dean Bender spoke to the Phi Beta Kappa recipients, urging that honor grades are not the only criterion of success, but admitting that his experience had proved there was all apparent inverse ratio between brains and brawn...
Casting a worried eye toward "the instability of the world and of society today" the new dean stressed the need for leadership founded on "personal integrity and emotional stability" as well as mental brawn. Unfortunately the personal qualities have sometimes been overlooked in seeking academic ability. His hope for the future depends upon increased scholarship funds to expand the search for well-rounded personalities. Toward the same end but slightly more nebulous is the problem of developing "more sense of a community at Harvard." Not meaning by this the "rah-rah" spirit of some colleges, Bender rather feels the need...