Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...danger of "introspection" in a boy's religion. He frankly owns that "there is more in the habits of formal religion than I used to think--In spite of the fact that Christ was a very silent partner in the life of us boys, he was a very real companion." Charles Kingsley was a kinsman, and "the first person to give me the idea that religion made men efficient." His clinical work in a London Hospital, graphically described, stirred searching questions which cut deep into his life. Accidental contact with D. L. Moody, "down a dark street in Shadwell...
...following review of the current issue of the Lampoon was written by Harford Powel, Jr. '09, former president of the Lampoon, and now editor of the Youth's Companion...
...present those facts. And, since there are facts and facts, a truism appreciated by the departments, they have discovered that no evil can befall him who chooses among them in preparing and answering his divisional examinations. Hence, this catharsis from the pity and fear inspired by divisionals has its companion, not completely ancillary good in the particular training involved. The Harvard "Ask Me Another" is essentially a valuable experience, a creditable experiment in that wide, Ill charted field of "higher education...
Married. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 85, potent reformer; to Mrs. Eleanor Marx, 65, onetime companion of the first Mrs. Parkhurst; in Los Angeles. As president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, in 1891 he instigated the Lexow investigation of the New York Police Department. Richard Croker fled to Europe; Tammany Hall was defeated in the following election; Theodore Roosevelt was appointed Police Commissioner...
Harry S. New, Postmaster General, was dictating letters last week. Upon the word "Come-at-able," his stenographer was "stumped," puzzled. "Come-at-able," explained Mr. New, "means 'approachable'; it is a companion word to the old Hoosier 'get-at-able...