Word: triumphant
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...years worked assiduously in his profession. Owing to his steadfast stand for the Union, in Philadelphia, he was invited to speak at the Harvard College Commemoration Exercises in 1864, and this was the second time President Eliot saw him. Here Phillips Brooks poured forth such a flood of joyous, triumphant thanksgiving that not a man who heard him ever forgot him. It was this marvelous speech that led to his being elected to the Board of Overseers when he came to Boston in 1870. He served on this board from 1870-1882, and again from 1883-1889. Among his greatest...
While on the way the band will play triumphant music meet...
...Norris, Eddie Garvey, Lawrence kearney and Lon Brine. All of these principals and others as well will doubtless receive a very cordial and enthusiastic reception from the Harvard men on next Tuesday evening. Harvard night, when, in compliment to Mr. Emerson Cook, Harvard '93, the college colors will wave triumphant at the Museum. A special rate is accorded for Harvard night on presentation of the Harvard Co-operative card at Thurston...
...country, he marched straight for Jachson. Napoleon himself never planned a bolder stroke. The enemy were confounded by its swiftness and sharpness. Johnson's force was scattered; Pemberton, bewildered, tried to cut, at Grand Bluff, a line of communication which never existed. Soon he, too, was overwhelmed by the triumphant Federal advance. At Champion's Hill he was routed and again at Black River Bridge. The remnants of the force were hurled back into their fortifications, and Haines's Bluff, outflanked, surrendered. Here Grant established the base which he had dispensed with for the famouse eleven days campaign...
...questioned by scientists, but not one of its spiritual or ethical teachings has been weakened in the least by any of their discoveries. If it could not hold its own against criticism, surely it is time that men recognized the fact; but, in realty, it is triumphant over crititism and proves its claim to be the book most useful and helpful to humanity. It is a book that is full of strength and encouragement for everyone, and no man can afford to neglect it. The activity of the student is ever profitable but never more so than when his attention...