Word: penns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keller fell by a narrow 5-4 decision to Anthony Kestler of Columbia in a playoff bout. Cetrulo also lost by a 5-4 margin, bowing to Norman Braslow of Penn in another playoff contest. Their performances earned the two Crimson fencers positions on the All-American first team...
...Penn Wins Easily...
...Penn, "there could be few more exciting places to become a well educated man." Or "if you are thinking of winning a Rhodes Scholarship, becoming a United States Senator, or simply obtaining an outstanding liberal education at a well-situated college, look closely at Princeton." If the name you want is Harvard, "the essence of its life provides a challenge and experience unmatched at any American university." That is, of course, unless you are at Dartmouth where team spirit "helps provide identity and direction, it sharpens challenges, helps make life exciting." And on and on. The descriptions of each...
...Guidebook's humor ever sags, that insider's advice, as glossy as the cover, just keeps zipping along. The inquisitive high school senior learns that Penn calls its abnormal psychology course "Nuts and Sluts." Harvard calls informal dinner talks in the Houses "tables," and Princeton calls university cops "proctors." (If that's the inside dope, I'll go to CCNY, thanks...
...factual background on each school varies from irrelevant to misleading. Two-thirds of the first page on Penn talks about a new swimming pool. Dartmouth is most famous for its computer (after its team spirit, of course) and secondly famous because "even classrooms are left unlocked after hours to allow extra study space for students who want an entire room, complete with blackboards, chalk, and 20 empty desks, to study in." Only after six pages of computer sketches of Snoopy and praise for the Dartmouth campus--traditional Ivy Covered in rural New England setting--do the authors drop Dartmouth...