Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Laolr's Cyclopedia II., 85; Appleton's Cyclopedia (2d ed.) VI. 571; Kapp on Immigration 151; Carnegies' Triumphant Democracy, 23-46; Congressional Record...
...Carola, Piety, Wisdom, Justice, Truth. This ends the first division of the procession. The next epoch begins with the triumphal entry of Frederick I, named the Victorious, after the battle of Seckenheim, 1462. The war-scarred veterans, with torn ensigns and shattered spears and battered armor, but with proud, triumphant faces, ride slowly along, amid the cheers of men, women and children who owe safety to their arms. Then follows group after group of knights, ladies, students, monks, citizens, symbolic cars and gorgeous canopies...
...extended. He will even tell you that the vacation ought to last until Wednesday morning at nine o'clock. However, it is to be hoped that the proverbial spirit of indifference, which by some calumniators is said to prevade the minds of Harvard men will not become so far triumphant that a large number of its devotees will ask to burden the very parent and nourisher of it, - Harvard herself - by using the grace of the college authorities as a means to create a nice little vacation, to be spent in some other quarter of the globe than Cambridge...
...Beck, and preceded by a band of twenty pieces marched down Harvard street to the yard, where a pyrotechnic display of much variety and substance took place amid the vociferous cheering of the '89 enthusiasts. The line of march was then taken up and cheered on by the triumphant strains of "Yale Men Say," and "Marching Through Georgia," the freshman made the walls of the old dormitories echo and re-echo with the sound of their prolonged "rah's." Transparencies bearing the names of the freshman nine and trenchant sarcasm upon Yale, the CRIMSON and others who expected to hear...
...whole series. Both nines yesterday were well settled to their work, and were fairly matched. We need not comment upon the plucky game which our representatives were playing, but desire to express our confidence in the result. We trust that another year will again see the CRIMSON triumphant. The steadiest play is called for in a contest against so powerful and well organized a nine as the "Peachblows," but the victory, if attained, will only reflect the more credit. The opponents of the CRIMSONS have proved themselves to be hard hitters and sharp fielders, but they will, we feel confident...