Question
A poem asks you to do this activity in a line that also asks you to “wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this activity. Another poem notes, “The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them” of a woman who becomes the 29th person to do this activity after watching “twenty-eight young men” doing this activity.
ANSWER: swimming [or word forms; accept bathing]
[10e] This poet wrote, “swim with the swimmers” in “I Sing the Body Electric.” The 29 bathers feature in this poet’s “Song of Myself.”
ANSWER: Walt Whitman
[10h] The speaker wonders if the sea will kill a “beautiful gigantic swimmer” in this Whitman poem. This dream vision features George Washington’s loss at the Battle of Brooklyn and a Native American woman’s visit to the speaker’s mother.
ANSWER: “The Sleepers”
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Houston A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Indiana A | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa State A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |