Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are several very interesting books on religion and theology just published. "The Religious Thought of the Greeks from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity" takes up the history of Greek religious ideas. The book, by Clifford Herschel Moore '89, Professor of Latin, deals primarily with the genetic development of the higher phases of religion, and discusses also ancient morality, Roman religion, Oriental cults, and early Christianity. Shailer Matthews, Professor of Historical and Comparative Theology and Dean of the Divinity School in the University of Chicago, and William Belden Noble Lecturer at the University for 1916, has a book...
...pity of the whole thing. Why could not more musical features have been introduced? If the authors objected to turning their farce into a musical comedy their objections stand in the way of their gaining more laurels. Although mixing categories is an awful danger among dramatists, a hybrid triumph is better than mere mediocrity...
...considered a great mistake on the part of our country. Now, but not until now, do we agree that the question of war or no war is past discussion. No one is more sympathetic than we with the ultimate aim for which we enter the struggle, namely, the triumph of democracy over autocracy and the spirit which makes war necessary. It has been in the past a question of how best to realize this goal. Now that our line of action has been irrevocably decided upon, we join in carrying it through, although, as unlikely as it may sound, should...
...universal military training should not be debated now. Harvard's balloting has not settled the question; it is a topic of more than a day's importance, one which will continue to be of acute interest until sober discussion has decided it one way or the other. A triumph achieved without preliminary argument, though it may be indicative, cannot be regarded as final. Both sides may still make converts...
...mighty deep in anger, and the lovely mermaids are all features which no mean direction could establish. But one has the conviction throughout that nature and the producers' skill are responsible for all our enjoyment--while we were assured that this was to be something of a dramatic triumph...