Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often about so many things. A Yale man is brought up in the belief that a good follower is as important as a good leader. We can only stand and wonder at how well he plays his role. To each and every Yale man we say, "Stout little fellow. Carry...
Dartmouth took eighth and ninth places, with Roy Benson eighth in 27:18 and David Stout ninth, nine seconds later...
...Cobb took the tenth spot for Harvard, five seconds behind Stout. Charles Redmond and Ed Laws took 12th and 13th for Harvard in 23:02 and 23:05 respectively, before Gregg Audette closed out the Dartmouth scoring by taking 14th...
Byron in Curlers. His book is a kind of protracted gossip column of the romantic period. Byron, he reveals, slept with his hair in curlers; Sir Walter Scott was as stout a trencherman as any character in his historical novels. Gronow was a friend of Shelley's at Eton, and recalls how the fledgling poet, inspired by Homer's account of heroic single combats before Troy, took on a young baronet named Sir Thomas Styles in a fist fight. "Shelley stalked round the ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes...
...London Times ran it as an obit that black July 4, 1914, when the Harvard junior varsity became the first American crew to win the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley. But the Empire survived, and so did the eight stout oarsmen, captained by a wiry Yankee who became Massachusetts Senator Leverett Sal ton stall, 72. And back to Henley they all went to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a row on the Thames and to donate a new Grand Challenge Cup to replace the leaky 125-year-old original. For Salty, it was enough just to be back, sipping champagne...