Word: companions
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...first occasion on which Harvard College has been creditably identified with a general observation of the transit of Venus. On the occasion of the transit of 1874 the phenomenon was not visible here, but in respect to the previous transit in 1769, and so to speak, its companion of 1761, Harvard has an honorable record. The college had no observatory then and but a meagre supply of instruments, but what were at command did good service. There was no observatory in this country at that time nor for a long while afterward, and that Harvard College stands...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It is with considerable surprise and amusement that we discover the date "410 B. C." above the figure of Leonidas in the new window of the class of 1858, recently placed in Memorial Hall. Taking as an analogy the date 1643 A. D. above the companion figure Hampden, which marks the year of his death, we may suppose that the date above Leonidas is intended likewise to denote the year of that hero's death. But, according to general accounts, the battle of Thermopylae, with which the name of Leonidas is usually associated, was fought...
Resolved, That by his death we have lost one who during his brief stay as a member of our class endeared himself to many; one who proved himself a pleasant companion, a sincere friend...
Resolved, That by the death of our classmate we have lost a pleasant companion, a good scholar, a friend who bore knowing, and who by his frankness, generosity, and manliness, will compel us to miss...
...last Crimson contains a poem entitled "Unclothed," companion to "The Great Unwashed," we suppose...