Word: companion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...argument advanced, hardened followers of Mammon? The writer has frequently heard that glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that his state of mind was purely a result of improper home-training. Yet semi-religious and multo religious papers still echo the cry of "Harvard irreligion!" Is it that our alumni are sceptics? More Harvard...
...Youth's Companion for 1886 there are to be four papers on advice to a boy entering college, by President Porter, President Eliot, President Barnard and Professor Tyler...
...What are those small tin boxes which seem to be the inseparable companion of every student?" I asked...
...will be on file in the Harvard Reading Room: dailies, Boston Advertiser, Post, Transcript, N. Y. Times, Tribune, Springfield Republican. Weeklies, Philadelphia Times, Cincinnatti Gazette, Chicago Inter-Ocean, Louisville Courier Journal, New Orleans Picayune, Atlanta Constitution, Burlington Hawkeye, Texas Siftings, San Francisco Bulletin and Argonaut, The Beacon, Youth's Companion, Spirit of the Times, Turf, Field and Farm, N. Y. Sportsman, N. Y. Clipper, Harper's Weekly, The Nation, Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Illustrated London News, English Illustrated Magazine, Pall Mall Budget, London Times, Punch, Puck, Judge and Life. College papers, Yale News and Lit., Amherst Student, Princetonian, Brunonian...
Presidents Porter, McCosh, Eliot and Barnard are each to have a paper in the Youth's Companion for next year entitled "Advice to Young Men Preparing for College...