Posted on 03/11/2019 2:32:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With a correct answer just seconds before the final bell, Grove City College defeated Harvard University to capture the championship in the second annual American History and Western Civilization Challenge Bowl over the weekend at The King’s College in New York City.
Grove City College’s team of Noah Gould, Carolyn Hartwick and Elena Peters racked up 537 points to the Harvard squad’s 526, securing the lead and ultimate victory by correctly identifying 16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.
The matchup Saturday was the result of preliminary action in the American Heritage Education Foundation-sponsored event. The foundation invited four northeastern colleges to vie for the championship. Host-school The King’s College and Princeton University were also selected. The foundation promotes civics and history education and sees the bowl as a way to encourage teaching in those fields and rewarding students for their mastery of American history and Western civilization.
In the semi-finals Friday, Grove City College faced off against Princeton’s team and The King’s College went up against Harvard. Team members each presented a speech on a topic and then proceeded to game-show style toss-up rounds, complete with buzzers to claim the query. King’s lost to Harvard and Grove City College bested Princeton’s team with a final score of 672 to 540.
In the finals, Gould, Hartwick and Peters, who are all part of the college’s Trustee Scholar program, and the team from the Abigail Adams Institute at Harvard battled back and forth over the toss up questions. Going down momentarily and then up, until “literally the last question,” says Jason R. Edwards, professor of history and coach of the Grove City College team.
“They represented the college in the very best way possible by not only impressing all with their academic acumen, but also with their gracious spirits and infectious personalities — and by that I do not mean that Carolyn was sick the whole time – though she was,” Edwards said. “It truly was a team effort and the students are so grateful for the support they received and were so tickled as well to discover that a large contingent of Grove City College students cheered them on as they gathered to watch the livestream of the event.” Grove City College took the championship on a toss-up question but they also achieved the most points over the course of the contest in the speech component, which included a memorized speech with extended prep time and one with limited prep time and notes.
Each student on the winning team also won a $4,000 cash scholarship.
Thanks for posting this.
Happily sent it on to our 2 nephews who went there.
That’s all right. Harvard could easily beat Grove City in the Woke Bowl. Bunch of conservative Christians probably don’t know anything about being Woke.
Probably the safety school for folks that couldn't get into Wharton.
LOL.
True dat!
College of the Ozarks also.
My daughter graduated from GCC with a degree in history in 2016. I have a son who is about to graduate from GCC with an Economics and History degree (they teach Austrian economics at GCC) and he writes part time for the American Spectator. My last son is getting his Economics degree with Math minor from GCC in 2021. My oldest is a disappoint to me, he is getting his PHd in Chemistry, but he didn’t go to GCC, I wonder if he will get a job...
Great cause i am sick of Harvard and Yale and the ivies.
Getting into Harvard undergraduate used to be tough. Mba much easier.
But Hahvahd has better self-esteem anyway.
Just around the way from me.
I was in Lower Merion today, and I don’t understand how so many people have mansions.
Far out (pun intended)!
I knew the Tycho Brahe answer!
I wish I had had kids bright enough to go to Grove City.
No, Bob Jones, Pensacola College and a host of others do not either. But not many.
Tycho Brahe ; born Tyge Ottesen Brahe; 14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601) was a Danish nobleman, astronomer, and writer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. He was born in the then Danish peninsula of Scania. Well known in his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer and alchemist, he has been described as "the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel ardently the passion for exact empirical facts. His observations were some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
Tycho was psycho, yet brilliant. 8>)
Because of course they would.
The three best universities in the USA-—Hillsdale, Grove City, and Liberty U.
Harvard has been too busy admitting the PC crowd. I know a young man who had a near perfect SAT, but was white and not admitted. This happened while a young Black guy in his class, who had SATs over 200 points lower than the first kid, was admitted. A degree from Harvard no longer means the best of the best, academically anyway.
If you go to the Grove City College campus, you will notice one thing — IT IS LILY WHITE and you can count the number of blacks with your hands ( there is significant Asian student population though ).
I don’t think GCC does affirmative action. But then, if you’re black and DO get in, we know that YOU REALLY DESERVE IT ON MERIT.
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