Word: companionship
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...week, no man should be kept out of a House if he has a logical and sound reason for wishing to enter it. Secondly, it is justly pointed out that Freshmen will be wise to play safe by applying in groups, so that they may be assured of the companionship of certain friends. Every effort should be made by the committee to put these groups intact into one or another House...
...fine sense of humor and was the most amazingly patient and uncomplaining old chap I ever heard of. He did contract caisson fever while building the Brooklyn Bridge, and was an invalid for upwards of 50 years. In the last 18 years of his life he had the companionship of a most devoted wife (his second). I knew him rather well and never heard that he "ate upside down." He had a flair for writing about the family, much of what he had to say being incorporated in a book on the Roeblings published two years ago by the University...
...exclamation "on bokes." As befitted his wealth and inclination, the good man's library was a matter of envy; and in the long absences of her husband, Mistress Anne, being a "goodly young woman of special parts," was quick to 'sconce herself in the deep chairs and seek companionship in that cozy den. Too long however did the small head pore and ponder, for shortly, as one learns there befell "a sad infirmity, the loss of understanding and reason, which had been growing on her by occasion of giving herself wholly to reading...
...That they love the frightful ordeal of childbirth, so seldom relieved by competent medical treatment? That they love to spend 40,000 or 50,000 hours washing diapers, getting up in the night, tending colic, meeting in a city flat the little savages' requirements of safe outdoor activity and companionship, stewing soups and milks, acting as household drudges, and either abstaining from the life of the outer world entirely or else staggering under the double burden of a very inferior position outside and work in the home as well...
...recent Harvard riot which was reported by Moscow newspapers as caused by hunger for food, and which the San Francisco newspapers attributed to hunger for companionship of Radcliffe belles was brought to a splendid anti-climax in court yesterday morning. Policemen under oath were a bit more honest than the press in admitting that Harvard students had been "grabbed at random" and arrested "without any idea of what they might have been guilty...