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...days after the Penn-Cornell game, 40 players on the Quaker football team came down with symptoms of nausea similar to those suffered by their fans. The incident put a strain on the team, which was preparing for a game at Bucknell. Twenty of the sick players made the trip, but complained of fatigue and dizziness the night before the game...
...Zegart '89--the first of about 10 students to take part in the Quaker-style ceremony--said Vanderpool had a "humor of wisdom" and "transcended traditional Harvard categories...
...idealist line as clear in early republican painting? Not quite, for artists took longer to develop their gifts, and painting, in any case, never seemed as good a political instrument to the Founding Fathers as architecture. Benjamin West (1738-1820), born in Springfield, Pa., to Quaker parents, was the first major American painter to make a career in Europe; he succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. West might be known as the American Raphael, but this praise was as excessive as Lord Byron's dismissal of him: "the flattering, feeble...
Trailing 8-6, O'Neill tallied four of the bout's final five touches to defeat his Quaker counterpart...
Midway through the match, it appeared that it would be O'Loughlin taking home the gold. The bout was nip-and-tuck with the Quaker holding an 8-6 edge--only two points shy of his second-straight NCAA title...