Word: quakers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just like last year," a Penn student shouted as Atwood's match reached intermission. Last season Jeff Condon broke three match points in the ninth match to steal a Quaker victory...
Senior Larry Terrell faced his toughest collegiate match of the year against Penn's Palmer Page and had to go five games to win. Page ran Terrell all over the court in the first two games but still lost, 11-15, 12-15. Obviously frustrated the Quaker sophomore seemed broken as he shouted at himself and kicked the walls as he lost points...
Rick Tolbert was the only other Harvard saberman to win, dumping his Quaker, 5-3, in the first round. He lost his last two bouts, 5-2. Scott Beckett lost three times, and managed to get only five touches in three bouts...
Liberating Numbers. Sex soon began to run a close second. Russell rhapsodizes in his three-volume autobiography about the joys of honeymooning with his first wife Alys, a Quaker from Philadelphia. Stimulated by such delights, Russell wrote his first major work, The Principles of Mathematics, at the breakneck rate of 200,000 words in three months. The book was designed to liberate numbers from the mystique that had clung to them since the days of Pythagoras and to demonstrate that all mathematics derives from logic. The three-volume Principia Mathematica took Russell and Whitehead ten years. Most...
Peun opened the season with five straight victories and looked as if it would retain its title without too much trouble. However, in its last two matches the Quaker team has fallen to NYU and Navy. In an interview with a member of the Daily Pennsylvanian, Quaker coach Lajos Csiszar blamed the two losses, in part, on the team's irregular practices. "To win against strong competition you have to practice hard the week before. That is something this team refuses to do." he said...