Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...effective and striking scenery, suggestive costuming, and originality of staging, the performance of "Erasmus Montanus" was something of a triumph. The scenery made no pretense at realism; it was frankly imaginative and showed real skill and knowledge of stage values. The costumes were in harmony with the scenery and both admirably suited the character of the play. It is not too much to say that the success of "Erasmus Montanus" was in considerable measure due to the accurate conception of scenery and costumes. Again, it is not over enthusiastic to say that seldom, if ever, has there been such uniformly...
Underlying this activity for Harvard there was a motive, so strong that, in spite of doctors' orders, he made trips to Cambridge to speak before Memorial Day gatherings and each new Freshman class. The triumph of this motive made him a master financier and the foremost private citizen of the Commonwealth. He desired "men who could be trusted." What could not be done if we worked entirely with trustworthy men? Only with such did he deal; and in so far as he could, he labored that all Harvard men should "remain within the truth." In his address to the Class...
...Bolshevism cannot be checked by argument," says Mr. Carver. He is right. It can't. And the inference is that the only other way is to kill it with clubs and guns. But Mr. Carver doesn't advocate that, for he says "If . . . the principles of peace triumph, civilization will advance." He means, of course, that we have done well to give up our attempt to smash a new system of government with guns; we should try the methods of peace and understanding, that we may not drift "toward another Dark...
...poets cannot always, declare with Carlyle that there is nothing else but justice in the universe, they can at least assert the ultimate triumph of justice. They believer that whether you or I win or lose, the "forts of folly" will one day fall. If beaten in the lower court of the understanding, they made their proud appeal to Caesar, to the imperial rights of the imagination...
...itself to be a skillful combination, but upon the outcome of the Memorial Day game rests the ultimate judgment of the success or failure of the season. All the trials of the spring, even defeat at the hands of the Tigers, may well be forgotten in event of a triumph over the Blue...