Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be nursed along from old tastes to new. There are, fortunately, plenty of books possessing the intensity of action of the "dime novel" together with that cleverness of style which somehow creates an atmosphere of reality lacking in the latter. Men like Kipling, Mark Twain, and, above all, Stevenson will almost infallibly gain the attention of the most rebellious youth and give him a degree of pleasure which henceforth makes him vaguely dissatisfied with anything less. After all, the possession of a fund of associations does a great deal to make life pleasant; it is for their wealth...
...American quarterback, will be Princeton's mainstay in the broad-jump and the sprints with Scarlett, Tinker, Ross, and Blake to aid him in the latter. Lourie became British broad-jump champion last spring when the Tiger track team defeated Oxford in England. In the quarter are Stevenson, winner of the British championship; Lambert and Conover, all veterans...
...region "where every prospect pleases" and only in the eyes of the European missionary is man ever vile. Melville, perhaps, discovered to literature a whole new demesne for the imagination to conjure with. Charles. Warren Stoddard bore his testimony to the passing of a Polynesian paradise; Robert Louis Stevenson died "under the wide and starry sky" where he passed his latter days; Jack London, Safroni Middleton, Rupert Brooke, paid tribute each in his own specie; Paul Gauguin painting and drinking absinthe to the end, seeking relief from constant paint in drugs, limned the pagan folk of "Bloody Hiva...
...Lowell kennedy, Mrs. Henry P. King, Mrs. Alexander Ladd, Mrs. E. H. MacFadden, Mrs. Roger B. Merriman, Mrs. E. C. Moore, Mrs. John S. Penman, Mrs. Charles Allen Porter, Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, Mrs. H. B. Richardson, Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears, Mrs. Willis Shepard, Mrs. Robert H. Stevenson Jr., Mrs. Ezra Thayer, Mrs. Albert Thorndike, Mrs. Augustus Thorndike Jr., Mrs. J. G. Thorp, Mrs. R. deC. Ward, Mrs. George S. West, Mrs. C. J. White and Mrs. E. A. Whitney...
...weight events, Speers, who won fifth place in the intercollegiate hammer-throw, Sweet, Halsey and Thompson are the Tiger entries. The Princeton team is especially strong in the middle distance runs, with W. L. L. Adams, former interscholastic champion in the quarter and half-mile, W. L. Stevenson and F. L. Murray...