After the contest captains for the following year were
elected. Yale chose Bridgman, who did splendid work on Corneille and
the poets of the Pleiade, while Harvard's choice fell on Butterworth,
probably the best intercollegiate expert on Cervantes. In the evening
all the contestants attended a performance of 'The Prince and the
Peach' at the Gaiety. It is reported that no less than nine out of the
sixteen men have received flattering offers to coach Romance language
teams in the leading Western universities."
_From the "Daily Princetonian" of February 13, 1933:_
"Princeton won the intercollegiate championship yesterday with 63
points to Harvard's 37, Yale's 18, and 7 each for Brown, Williams, and
Pennsylvania. Princeton won by her brilliant work in the classics and
biology. Firsts were made by Bentley, who did the 220 lines of Homer in
29-3/5 minutes, scanned 100 Alcaics from Horace in 62 seconds flat, and
hurdled over nine doubtful readings and seven lacunae in the text of
Aristotle's 'Poetics' in 17-1/2 minutes. Two firsts went to Ramsdell,
who made only two errors in Protective Colouration and one error in
explaining the mutations of the Evening Primrose.
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