"eleemosynary," and "destroy."

 

Use long falling inflections on the italicized words in the following selection,

noting their emphatic power. Are there any other words here that long falling

inflections would help to make expressive?

 

_ADDRESS IN THE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE_

 

This, sir, is my case. It is the case not merely of that humble institution; it

is the case of _every_ college in our land. It is _more_; it is the case of

_every eleemosynary_ institution throughout our country--of _all_ those great

charities founded by the piety of our ancestors to alleviate human misery and

scatter blessings along the pathway of life. Sir, you may _destroy_ this little

institution--it is _weak_, it is in your hands. I know it is one of the lesser

lights in the literary horizon of our country. You may put it out. But if you do

you must carry through your work; you must extinguish, one after another, _all_

those great lights of science which, for more than a century, have thrown their

radiance over our land!

 

It is, sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet--there are those who _love_

it!

 

Sir, I know not how others may feel, but as for myself when I see my alma mater

surrounded, like Caesar in the senate house, by those who are reiterating _stab_

after _stab_, I would not for this right hand have her turn to me and say, And