Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...remarkable fact that sufferings and hardships do not tire us of life; they rather urge us on and we find joy in our triumph over them. When you relate to one contemplating suicide the woes which others have suffered, you base his consent to try again on manliness and pride, and he is easily moved to begin again. When we accept the pleasures of a life which is based on the sacrifice of the lower animals it involves the point of honor and demands of us unselfishness. Life, then, is worth living no matter what it brings, and probably...
...Triumph March. Armstrong...
...considering the influences at work on the English, terms of law, of the church, and words for articles of necessity and consumption would naturally be those in which the alien would triumph over the native nomenclature. In the third class we should of course expect to find the greatest number of examples,- the producers being Saxon and the consumers Norman. Thus for instance we have ox, sheep, calf, swine, on the one hand, to designate the thing produced, all Saxon-and, on the other, beef, mutton, veal, pork, all Norman-French-to indicate the thing consumed. In the same...
Throughout, in composition the architect should hold truth before him as the ideal which he is striving to attain, he should never resort to constructive trickery. A bad idea suppressed is a triumph for the good...
...respect of the outside world she certainly has not lost. With the same feeling as if Harvard had won we heartily congratulate Captain Waters and his men on their pluck and on the manly way in which they strove at least to win. There is a sort of "triumph in a losing cause" and Harvard can at least feel this triumph, for her game, though losing, was fair and sportsmanlike. This defeat must have no effect on the Pennsylvania game. Students and team must unite again for this final effort and close, Harvard's record for this year with...