Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...discovery has not chastened his adjectives. The propensity to fine phrases is the besetting temptation of many college writers--not the exuberance of fancy which is attributed to youth, but the exuberance of dictionary which makes some fashionable authors intolerable. There is one parlor story, "Cupid's Ladder," by Mr. W. C. Greene, which leaves the hero proposing to the wrong sister, but does not inspire in us any curiosity to know what came of it. We are curious, however, to know why he four times addresses the lady as "Madamoiselle." Spelling is, I fear, a neglected branch of literature...
Every year Harvard graduates a body of men who at once go into some office or begin on the lowest rung of the ladder. Some of these men during their residence in Cambridge may have received only an impractical smattering of French or German, a hazy familiarity with the habits and private life of the Ancient Romans, and perhaps a more or less thorough understanding of the Indian tribes of the southwest and the varieties of the daisy in Middlesex county. Few men confine themselves to these subjects, but even such information, however trivial it may seem at first thought...
...Parker, "Ladder of Swords...