Word: triumphal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...over to a commemorative religious service preceeded by an academic procession, a reception of delegates and other exercises. Today is "Students Day" and will be the principal day of the celebration. The grounds of the college and the various buildings have been decorated and the town has erected a triumphal arch over one of the principal streets. This morning there will be an academic procession followed by literary exercises, and in the afternoon a football game between Princeton and the University of Virginia. This evening there will be a large torchlight parade and illumination of the campus. Both graduates...
...bell yesterday afternoon served another purpose besides calling men to recitations. It announced the triumphal entry to the yard of Old John and his sumptuous turn out. The fruit business will doubtless be very much accelerated by the new donkey and though we have some forbodings about John's personal safety we wish him and his donkey long life...
...difficulties of the craft from the inside. Mr. Hart's remarks, "In a Corner at Dodsley's," on the tendencies of contemporary literature to dispense altogether with literary men, are animated and amusing. Mr. Harte says: "The days of literary men in literature is over. It is now the triumphal hour of the imbecile millionaire, the rich society woman, who has nerves, hysteria, a vast deal of impudence, a store of proverbial piatitude, and a continual itch for notoriety; actresses that have more gowns than brains; English lords and ladies, and some assinine royalities. Every fool in the universe, with...