Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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HEREAFTER the Advertiser's "Tabular View" and "Companion Table" cannot be published by any enterprising student who wishes to do so, a copyright to it having been recently granted...
WORDSWORTH.AUGUST 24, 1873. - Started at 9 A. M. Meant to start at 4. Companion, - athletic Freshman. Equipment, - old hats, flannel shirts, double-decked boots, six-foot staves, knapsacks (twenty pounds each), one saucepan, and two tin cups. (We had a little brandy, three pints.) Destination, - unknown. Walked twenty miles before dinner. Weather rather debilitating. Took a little brandy. At 12 M. saw pretty girl blowing dinner-horn at door of farm-house. Stopped for dinner. Dinner bad. Girl pleasant. Freshman asked for lock of her hair. Started again at 1.30. Walked twenty miles. Startled female peasant takes us for brigands...
...CERTAIN professor, whose chin was wont to be graced by a flowing beard, has lately returned shorn of every vestige of his hirsute appendage. A Soph., meeting the aforesaid Prof., after a prolonged stare, and with a knowing wink to his Senior companion, burst out with "By Jove, that's the hardest-looking Freshman I've seen...
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God, in his infinite mercy, to remove by death, during the past vacation, our companion and classmate, ALFRED HENRY JONES...
Resolved, That, while we his classmates, in common with his many other friends, share in the loss sustained by his death, we feel that this blow has fallen with peculiar force upon ourselves, to whom he has endeared himself by his many talents, and as a genial companion and a warm and true friend...