Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Aspiring House grapplers will get an opportunity to bare their brawn at an inter-House wrestling tournament next week, intramural director Adolf Samborski announced today. Entries in eight classes ranging from 121 pounds to unlimited will be accepted...
Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince pies, plum puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam...