Word: companions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...portrait was a gift to President Eliot on his seventieth birthday and resulted from a subscription fund of over $5000 raised by Burgess and others in 1904. The first sketching was made two years ago, during President Eliot's visit to England. As a companion to that of Major H. L. Higginson, painted also by Sargent, the portrait will hand in the same position which has been previously occupied by that of John Quincy Adams...
...Trade certificate of competency as mater-mariner, an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression and the drink evil, which find peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk. He has recently been made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward VII for his heroic missionary work. Dr. Grenfell has already shown himself well fitted to treat his material from the point of interest to college men by his lecture on the same subject at the Union two years...
...been engaged in medical work among the natives and fishermen of Labrador for over 14 years. In the summer he has cruised the length of the coast in his steel hospital ship, the "Strathcona," in winter making long tours with his dog-teams. He has recently been made a companion of St. Michael and St. George by the King of England for his heroic missionary work. Dr. Grenfell gave this lecture in the Union two years ago, and showed himself peculiarly well-fitted to treat his subject from a point of interest to college...
Another important addition is the figure of a Roman soldier, with reproductions of arms, from the Romisch-Germanisches Museum at Mainz. This statue, the gift of Mr. H. W. Putnam of Boston, is a companion figure to the Frankish warrior now in the Museum, and is intended to show the equipment of the Roman troops fighting on German territory in the first century...
...point where he remembered everything up to within an hour or so. Players who had had concussion were at once carefully examined to exclude the possibility of middle meningeal hemorrhage and, during the earlier part of the season, were sent to their rooms or to their homes, with a companion, with strict orders that they were to be left alone at no time until noon of the following day. Later on in the season this method not seeming sufficient, the injured men were in every case compelled to go to the infirmary, where they remained over night. These precautions were...