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A poem asks you to do this activity in a line that also asks you to “wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this activity. Another poem notes, “The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them” of a woman who becomes the 29th person to do this activity after watching “twenty-eight young men” doing this activity.
ANSWER: swimming [or word forms; accept bathing]
[10e] This poet wrote, “swim with the swimmers” in “I Sing the Body Electric.” The 29 bathers feature in this poet’s “Song of Myself.”
ANSWER: Walt Whitman
[10h] The speaker wonders if the sea will kill a “beautiful gigantic swimmer” in this Whitman poem. This dream vision features George Washington’s loss at the Battle of Brooklyn and a Native American woman’s visit to the speaker’s mother.
ANSWER: “The Sleepers”
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WUSTL AChicago B010010
Rutgers AClaremont A1010020
Minnesota AColumbia A1010020
Minnesota BImperial A010010
Purdue AJohns Hopkins A010010
McGill AIllinois A1010020
Penn State ASouth Carolina A010010
Rutgers BMichigan A010010
Stanford AChicago A1010020
MIT ATexas A1010020
NYU AVanderbilt A1010020
Virginia AYale B010010
Brown ACornell A1010020
Northwestern AHarvard A010010
Iowa State AGeorgia Tech B010010
Toronto ANorth Carolina A1010020
Houston AUC Berkeley B1010020
Indiana AChicago C1010020
Florida ADuke A010010
Columbia BFlorida B1010020
Yale AGeorgia Tech A1010020
Maryland AOhio State A010010
Penn AWUSTL B010010
Cornell BUC Berkeley A1010020