Word: companion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Main, August 28, 1749. His father was not very rich and had a meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years old Goethe wrote Latin correctly, and while still a child delighted in entertaining his youthful mates with strange stories. In 1765 he went to Leipsig to study law. He found poetry, however, more interesting, and returned to Frankfort, but afterward completed his legal education...
WHEREAS, It has pleased God in his divine mercy to remove from our midst our esteemed riend and classmate, Argyll Fraser, realizing that we have lost in him a kind and genial companion, we, the class of 1892 of Harvard University, do hereby...
...companion to Olivia O. Prescott, '89 Muslin, her maid G. C. Bullard, '89 Choruses of peasants, girls, flunkeys, watchmen, nuns, and monks...
...published in your college paper; or handed to some one whom you think a proper person? Early in September there is to be begun in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and London, the publication of a journal for young people, of a grade of St. Nicholas and the Youth's Companion, but unlike either in character of contents. It has a new field and its aim will be: The best juvenile journal in the world...
Resolved. That by his loss we are called upon to mourn a kind friend and genial companion, whose upright life and cheerful bearing did much to make life pleasant for all who knew...