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...team captain, Peter W. Schamdorff '67, said yesterday that this year the Harvard team will be considerably different from last year's losing squad. The five men (girls ae not permitted in the prison) will be chosen on the basis of intellectual agility, not volume of knowledge...
...Schamdorff said that last year the prisoners' advantage lay in their ability to respond more quickly than the Harvard...
Many of the prisoners are experts on such subjects as ornithology, linguistics, and mythology, Schamdorff said. This knowledge, often acquired as a hobby, is given a rare outlet in the PBH contest. Last year one prisoner overwhelmed the Harvard team with a display of knowledge of French history and literature...
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