Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale University boat crew is in a very bad fix at present. Stevenson has diptheretic sore throat and is unable to practice; Wilcox has gone home with bronchitis, and Capt. Rogers, Wells, and Gill are all suffering from very bad colds...
...Droppers' essay on "Robert Louis Stevenson" presents a mature and careful criticism of the works of that gifted writer. The style, a little involved at first, becomes clearer and more forcible as the essay progresses, and is marred by but a very few inelegancies. The light in which Stevenson's works are regarded is eminently just; and though the admiration bestowed on them admits of many qualifications, their inspiring cheerfulness and whole someness cannot be denied...
...after they had tossed them about for half an hour and had become tolerably well warmed up they were started on a six mile run around Prospect Hill. The candidates were stroked by Captain Stewart, of the junior crew, and were as follows:- Cross, of '88, No. 7; Stevenson, '88, No. 6; Woodruff, '89, No. 5; Middlebrook, '87, No. 4; Hurd, '88, No. 3; Gill, '89, No. 2, and Wilcox...
...Stevenson...
Robert Appleton, who rows bow, was a substitute last year. He is said to be an excellent single oarsman, although most of his time this year has been spent in the eight. Stevenson and Hartridge, the other two men, have rowed before in their class boats. Cadwell, the little coxswain, has grown rather heavier since last year, but is still the lightest man at Yale. He has had a great deal of experience and steers a wonderfully straight course...