Word: companions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There short sketches fill out this number. "The importance of Being a Grind" by W. C. Greene, and its companion piece. "The Importance of Being a Sport," by H. E. Porter, remind us of one of the best Advocate periods,--some fifteen years ago, when Mr. Flandran and his contemporaries were describing Harvard Types." But with this difference today the dissecting of the victim seems kindlier; the sareasm almost genral...
...long, it lacks scarcely one of the properties which the current practice of our best ten-cent magazines proves helpful toward securing publication. Local color, uncouth dialect, primal passion, heroic resignation, a moral struggle, and a savage fight march in perfect order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor's clever "Page from Gorky" seems pale and ineffective. After the reader has shuddered at "the great black raven" flapping slowly across...
...annual report of Professor Kuno Francke, as curator of the Germanic Museum, has recently been submitted to the Germanic Museum Association. A statue of Theodoric, a gift of the Bostoner Deutsche Gessellschaft, was a great addition as a companion figure to Vischer's King Arthur and the Emperor Maximilian already in the possession of the Museum...
...collection of the Germanic Museum was increased during the summer by the addition of a cast of the figure of King Theodoric from the tomb of the Emperor Maximilian, at Innsbruck. The statue is a companion piece to Arthur of England, already in the Museum, and is the gift of the Deutsche Gesellschaft of Boston...
...centuries. While he lives, Emerson and Hawthorne, Longfellow and Lowell, Whittier and Holmes, are not lost to the consciousness of any who knew them; the Cambridge, the Boston, the New England, the America which lived in them, has not yet passed away. He was not only the contemporary, the companion of those great men; he was their fellow citizen in those highest things in which we may be his if we will, for the hospitality of his welcome will not be wanting. Something Athenian, something Florentine, something essentially republican and democratic in the ideals common to them...