Word: companions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last link between the present age and that immortal coterie of men of letters--Longfellow and Lowell, Holmes and Emerson, Whittier and Hawthorne--is gone. He was of that same golden period of American literature which we shall not see renewed in the course of many years, the companion as well as the contemporary of those great men. It was his good fortune to have enjoyed the intimate friendship of many of the noblest personalities of his day, both at home and abroad, and the result was a unique breadth of intellectual as well as personal sympathies. The country...
...very beautiful reproduction of the bronze statue of Theodoric from the monument of the Emperor Maximilian at Innsbruck has been donated by the "Deutsche Gesellschaft" of Boston. This statue was placed in the museum as a companion piece to that of King Arthur from the same group...
...realized at the performance of Minna von Barnhelm February 20, for the benefit of the Germanic Museum has made it possible to secure a cast of the statue of "Theodoric," the companion figure for that of "King Arthur" already in the Museum. These two figures are by Peter Vischer, and form part of the sarcophagus of the Emperor Maximilian at Innsbruck...
...Board of Trade certificate of competency as a master-mariner, and an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance. He is an active opponent of the fraud, oppression and drink evils which prevail in Labrader. Last year he was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward, and recently he has received from Oxford the first M.D. degree that this university has ever given...
...University are regularly attended by 300 to 500 students. As the head of the Government Commission for the preservation of works of art in the Rhineland he is rendering inestimable services to the lovers of art all the world over. The fact that for years he has been travelling companion to the German Crown Prince, shows that he is a thorough man of the world. His visit to our University is a most exceptional opportunity for the study of the history of art in its broadest aspect. KUNO FRANCKE