Word: companionability
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...that carries itself in any tongue, and strikes the eye in the action of the players before the words reach the ear. Sganarelle's daughter is sick of love for her Clitandre. Her dull old father is too stupid to see the only cure. Wiser is the daughter's companion, the sage Lisette--wise beyond her years. She tells slow-witted Sganarelle that it will be a death-bed unless physicians are summoned. There is safety in numbers thinks the old man, and four doctors answer his call--pure figures of burlesque, and a little bitter burlesque, for Moliere...
...Germanic Museum has recently received from Mr. Henry W. Putnam '69, of Boston, a plaster cast of a statue of a Roman soldier--a companion figure to the statue of the Frankish warrior which has been in the Museum since its opening. This new plaster cast, like the old one, is from the Romisch Germanisches Museum at Mainz. Like the Frankish warrior, it is equipped with exact reproductions of arms, the originals of which are in the possession of the Mainz museum. Together the two figures give a very interesting illustration of the way in which Roman military art influenced...
...said, are here by the sacrifices of our parents; all of us are sent to College with great expectations from father or mother. Now is the chance by living up to these paternal ambitions to change our relation to father or mother from that of son to that of companion and supporter. We must command respect and invite confidence, by living without a shadow of concealment between ourselves and our parents...
...with the deepest sympathy for your loss, and sincere regret for the loss to our class that we recall the death of your son. He acted the part of an excellent student and thorough companion, and was essentially a Harvard man in the best sense of the word...
...Fairfax, the pride of Bonanza, S. A. Welldon '04 Mr. Moppet, proprietor and manager of White Isle Lodge, W. Field '05 Minnie Moppet, his daughter, W. P. Sanger '05 Angustus Grenville, of London, G. Aertsen '05 Duchesssa Marietta Chinola, of Italy, W. M. Tilden '05 Fritz David's unhappy companion, H. Otis '04 Captain Trump, of U. S. cruiser "Alaska," A. V. Baird...