Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five easy victories in the first two games roused high hopes for a triumph over Columbia, then leaders in the Intercollegiate League, but the Blue and White proved too strong and won by a six-point margin. Crippled by the absence of Captain Gordon, the Crimson defeated Williams unimpressively and dropped a listless contest to the Mass. Aggies, the visitors winning by a surprising rally in the second half...
Victories over the weak Rhode Island quintet and Worcester Tech, punctuated by a defeat from New Hampshire, left the University stock far below par when the Dartmouth five entered Hemenway for a return engagement. The 38 to 16 Harvard triumph surprised the team's most sanguine supporters fully as much as it did the Green invaders, who were completely outplayed from the first whistle to the last. St. Francis College two days later gave the Crimson a real scare, losing by a scant point in a hard-fought fray...
...successful, and the translation of it is excellent. The spirit of Rolland pervades the book, as does the spirit of Gandhi--indeed the two are often at one. He ends his summary of Gandhi's influence with these prophetic words: "One thing is certain, either Gandhi's spirit will triumph, or it will manifest itself again as were manifested, centuries before, the Messiah and Buddha; till there finally in manifested, in a mortal half-god, the perfect incarnation of principle of life which will lead a new humanity on to a new path...
...Indian stalked into the Nemenway Gymnasium with the confidence bred by one triumph over Harvard and sundry other victories over its Intercollegiate League rivals. he sent his second-string warriors after the Crimson scalp, but the supposed victim was in no mood to stand the red skins outrages, and with the battle half over the invaders called for help. The proud Hanover chieftan summoned his strongest front, but to no purpose. The second half was as much of a rout as the first...
...stimulate interest in music and singing--and with reference to the University Glee Club--to train his men to sing the best things satisfactorily, rather than to sing everything better than any other chorus this improvement of the other clubs is, for him almost as much of a triumph as the re-capturing of an often-won trophy by his own club would...