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Many currents of social change have converged to make the New Feminism an idea whose time has come. Mechanization and automation have made brawn less important in the marketplace. Better education has broadened women's view beyond home and hearth, heightening their awareness of possibilities-and their sense of frustration when those possibilities are not realized. As Toynbee had noted earlier, middle-class woman acquired education and a chance at a career at the very time she lost her domestic servants and the unpaid household help of relatives living in the old, large family; she had to become either...
...match between Jim Kardon of Dunster and Jim Doherty of Leverett promises to be a classic confrontation between brains and brawn. Doherty, who usually wrestles at 167, has beaten two much heavier opponents to reach the finals...
...mention of hotels led to wild tales of past trips. One of the most recent involved a one-night affair during Christmas vacation pitting the wits of New York's Penn Garden Hotel against the brawn of one medium-sized Harvard team, with supporting roles played by various members of the Bowdoin and Yale squads...
...went to Whittier College instead-early intimations of anti-Eastern-liberal-establish-mentarianism perhaps? At Whittier he helped found a men's social club called the Orthogonians-"a no-necked and merry crew," Classmate Lois Elliott Wilams remembers. Their motto was "4 B's -beans, brains, brawn and bowels...
...utterly stupid! Isn't there brains and/or brawn enough in the Harvard student body to prevent rowdies from the outside raising Hell in Harvard Square giving Harvard, also the whole Peace movement, a bad name...