Word: companionship
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...Education, to conduct the pedagogical research and advisory work now performed by the Bureau of Education in the Department of the Interior. The assembly unanimously adopted a report by investigators into the lot of the superannuated school teacher. What she dreads most is a lonely old age. To provide "companionship to prevent loneliness and grief" the Association will conduct a campaign to raise money for teacher homes...
That the desire for companionship has any considerable effect on the standards of scholarship would seem to be a hazardous contention. True, on a warm May evening, mutual restlessness often sends room-mates off to cyclonic or thunderbolting haunts...
...residence club for college graduates in New York City is planned to meet the difficulty experienced by new-comers in finding living quarters, it was announced yesterday by L. B. Young 3T.S. Trinity House on Brooklyn Heights has been chosen for the club building, where living accomodations and "congenial companionship" for 30 men and women will be offered...
Tutors advise students about their reading, discuss with them their subject as a whole and in relation to their courses and the books they have read, argue with them, stimulate them to independent thought in short, provide them with what might be termed intellectual companionship. A tutor's contact with a student extends not only beyond the special field into the general field of learning, but also beyond the intellectual level into the dimension of the human friendly relation. The tutor is closer to the student than any other member of the faculty. It is his business...
...love somebody else. Well, so do I, for my heart is in my wife's grave. We both need companionship. Love can wait...