Word: companionship
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...what an impetus table championship gives to the formation of friendships, carrying with its a spirit of cheerfulness and joviality. Many men, who are at times a little scrupulous about partaking of spermaceti soup, baked Indian, and corn starch, do away with these scruples for the sake of the companionship, recognizing, perhaps the importance of having good, cheerful company at table in order to get the most good from what he is eating there. Students, especially those who eat at club tables will enjoy looking back to their days of boarding at Memorial, and in days to come will meet...
Judge Hoar will sail for Europe in June, and thus deprive himself of the pleasure of Gov. Butler's companionship at the Harvard alumni dinner. - [Gazette...
...Hurrah!" with enthusiasm. Sue was thus unsuccessful in her designs on Ching. It was not her nature, however, long to wear the willow; she soon turned her batteries on Mnag. His heart, softened by the success of his plans, easily yielded; and he was made happy by the constant companionship of "the only woman he had ever seen who could make use of her approximation to brain." In the general happiness Goe and Bang were not forgotten, for an inexhaustible supply of apples was kept for them in Yung's house...
...under this trouble; indeed, if I could have had some confidant it might have been easier to bear. But I was a young man, and not naturally a despondent one; and therefore I regained to some extent my usual good spirits before the summer had passed. And perhaps the companionship of Miss Edith Austen had helped solace me. She was truly a very charming girl, - her glass and her friends told her so, - and I think she fully believed it; she had her little vanities, which she carefully concealed from the public gaze. I was very willing to join...
...department, filling it with books upon the subjects of that department, and thus making it a favorite working-place for men pursuing such studies. Here they will find a thousand or more volumes which they can consult at will, together with various aids to their particular study, and the companionship of congenial minds...