Question

A poem titled for this university begins “Softly I am leaving, / Just as softly as I came; / I softly wave goodbye / To the clouds in the western sky.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this university where a stone bears an inscription of lines from Xú Zhìmó’s (“shoo jurr-mwoh’s”) best-known poem, which is about leaving this university.
ANSWER: Cambridge University [accept “On Leaving Cambridge,” “Leaving Cambridge Again,” “Farewell Again, Cambridge,” or “Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again”; accept “Zài Bié Kāngqiáo”]
[10m] This poet declared “For Cambridge people rarely smile” in “The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.” A sonnet by this poet begins “If I should die, think only this of me” before describing “rich earth” with “a richer dust concealed.”
ANSWER: Rupert Brooke [or Rupert Chawner Brooke] (The sonnet is “The Soldier.”)
[10e] This poet described his “Residence at Cambridge” in the third book of his long autobiographical poem, The Prelude.
ANSWER: William Wordsworth

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Brown AGeorgia Tech B100010
Chicago AVanderbilt A0101020
Chicago BCornell A0101020
Columbia BToronto A001010
Cornell BNorthwestern A0101020
Georgia Tech AChicago C0101020
Harvard AHouston A001010
Illinois ADuke A0101020
Indiana AYale B001010
Iowa State AUC Berkeley A001010
MIT APenn State A001010
Maryland APenn A0101020
McGill ARutgers B0000
Michigan AFlorida B1001020
Minnesota ARutgers A001010
Minnesota BClaremont A0000
North Carolina AVirginia A001010
Ohio State AWUSTL B001010
Purdue AWUSTL A001010
Stanford ANYU A0101020
Texas AUC Berkeley B0101020
Yale AColumbia A001010