Word: companionship
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...particular work will be. This is the first great privilege of student life. A second is the chance to gain a broader outlook upon men and nature. A third privilege is the possibility of forming friendships, intellectual and spiritual, of life long duration. There ought to be a companionship of noble purpose...
...fourth verse of St. Luke's, twenty-fourth chapter: "While he blessed them, he was parted from them." From this brief account of the separation of Jesus and his disciples, Dr. Gordon drew a parallel of the parting of Harvard men from the ennobling influence of their College. Jesus' companionship, like his farewell, was a blessing; the Harvard influence too has been a blessing. Jesus was the way and the truth; Harvard, for Christ and the Church, has made her motto "Veritas...
...Pennsylvania, owing to the comparative lack of dormitory accommodations, there is, perhaps more than elsewhere, need of special arrangements to bring the members of teams into close companionship, but it is not to be doubted that even in the colleges which are free from that particular disadvantage, much might be gained by the establishment of an athletic club-house. It is a good thing to have the men eat together, and better yet to have them live together. The practical working of the plan will be watched with much interest...
...suggests DuMaurier's "Peter Ibbetson" and Kipling's "The Brushwood Boy." It is the story of an artist who gives himself up to the charms of smoking a king of Indian hemp called keef, and meets in his dreams a charming authoress. Although he sees that their dream companionship is bringing her to an untimely end, he smokes on until she dies. A death struggle between his faithful servant and her husband then ensues, and the keef-smoker leaves the country...
...have no homes, spend the night. Here also gather the unfortunates who are out of employment, and the destitute; and as but few of the lodging houses offer an attractive place for resort in stormy weather or during the evenings, the barrooms are resorted to for shelter and for companionship. It is to offer these men a pleasanter and more wholesome resort that the present project has been started; but the promotors hope that it will do more than this, for it is proposed to form a committee of students, who will visit the rooms at stated periods...