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Word: inherits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...congratulate Professor Dunbar as he retires, and the college at large, for the credit reflected directly and indirectly by the high journalistic stand to which this paper has been brought. The energy for which Mr. Lodge is famous, governed by the cautious temper which he must inherit from the former management, promise a vigorous future for this paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1886 | See Source »

...gives the following sketch of Dr. Everett, who preached at Cornell last Sunday: "The Rev. Wm. Everett is a son of Edward Everett, and is said to inherit a very large share of his father's genius. Having distinguished himself at Harvard as one of the finest Greek scholars ever graduated from that university, he went to England and continued his studies in Cambridge. While there he became a member of the famous university debating-club, the Cambridge Union, and in that body, during that darkest period of our Civil War, when all England looked with sympathy upon the rebellion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/15/1882 | See Source »

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