Word: ascendency
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...second speaker has a still more indefinite scope for his remarks than the first, his good things have been said by the class orator, his words ascend to the ether above, and are caught only by the broadest ears in his audience. Of the custom of planting ivies I have nothing to say. To point to the walls of the Library, against which clinging vines have been planted for at least a score of years, is sufficient. The magnificent display of green foliage hiding the gray stone is justly admired by all who see it. But cannot the next graduating...
...Yale collection according to the intellectual effort necessary to understand the writings of her great men? Let it begin with the spelling-book of Webster, over which the children of a past generation forgot their toys in their enthusiastic efforts to master the rudiments of English orthography; let it ascend through the grade of text-books to the dictionaries. Let the series extend in this regular grade through the numerous works in all departments of knowledge, in Chemistry, Physics, Geology, Language, and Metaphysics, culminating in Edwards on the Will and Porter on the Human Intellect, before both of which works...
...match at that coal-office. A younger employee, a youth with small and silky beard, showed strategic powers far superior to those of my friend. Smith and I were one day seated in his room, - which, by the way, is a very pleasant one, - when we heard some one ascend the stairs with nimble step and cheerful whistle. He went past Smith's door and up the next flight to one of the rooms above. In about five minutes' time he came down, whistling as before, and with light knock and heavy kick demanded admittance at our door. Smith, innocent...