Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult not to read into the Corporation's decision more significance than that due the simple solution of an administrative problem. In the eternal choice between brawn and brain as the dominant force in American universities. Harvard has gone on record that she will not be stampeded into the current craze for bigger and better stadia. In assuming the position she has done more than this; she has set a definite limit to the advance of one of two forces. This step may or may not have far-reaching results, but at least it has put the University...
...giant cross-country engine, Pacific 231, announced last week in Paris that his next symphony will be called Rugby. Into music he will put the scrimmaging of a football match, trying "to express the pulsating action, reaction, rhythm and color that animates the great contest of muscles, brawn and strategic skill...
...Yale they boil their enemies in brawn. Only two of the team that started against Army are stunted under six feet. Yale's pachyderms on the line average 192, behind the line 180. This gargantuan group galloped gravely through Army 10-6, despite the sinewy protests of the most seasoned backfield outside of professional football, Captain Harry Wilson (Penn State) Cagle (Louisiana), Murrell (Minnesota). Just in time did Charles D. Curran, an editor of The Pointer, West Point journal, apologize through the Yale Daily News for an inadvertent, faintly insulting bit of optimism in The Pointer. "Yale will furnish...
...race, or any other event," the Attic sage reasons, "And what does it benefit the city? Very unfairly, indeed, is it that mere brawn is considered superior to goedly wisdom...
...denied that it has in its favor some very attractive features, at least from the point of view of those whose unfortunate duty it will be to police the sturdy participants. Sequestered in the harbor of Amsterdam during the evenings of their stay in the Low Countries, the brawn especially selected by the United States to keep it at the pinnacle of the world's athletics will not be in any great danger of deteriorating. The few weeks spent in Paris in the summer of 1924 must indeed have been a revelation to the members of the troupe and according...