Nokomis High School - Old Nokomis Yearbook (Nokomis, IL)

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Robert Louis Stevenson, author of “Treasure Island, and famous for the delightful informality of his writings, was born in Edinburg, November 13, 1850. From his father he inherited a talent for engineering and the out-of-doors, while from his mother, who came from a family of scholars and ministers, the boy inherited his literary instinct. Handicapped by incipient tuberculosis, the boy was forced to abandon, successively, the profession of engineering, law, and the teaching of literature at Edinburg. Always he had enjoyed writing, and it is noteworthy that he adopted it as his profession from coercion rather than from choice. Since he was his own severest critic, it was not until he was twenty-nine that one of his works—a series of essays—was published in “Cornhill Magazine.” Believing that “To travel worthily is better than to arrive, And that true success is to labor,” he continued to work slowly, so that his wiitings brought him the golden gains of approval from an audience which was “lit—though few rather than a Treasure Island of immediate wealth. Although he loved adventure, he did not ignore the sublimity of the commonplace, a fact which may carry inspiration to all who hope to live rather than to make a living. Industrious in his profession, joyous in its execution, and gallant in adversity—why should not the theme of our annual be in keeping with his most popular book? E A. M.

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To the Crimson N which we most highly prize we dedicate this “Old Nokomis” 1’atic four