Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University tennis team scored a complete triumph in the intercollegiate matches held at Philadelphia last week. R. N. Williams '16 defeated L. Beekman, of Princeton in the final round and regained the individual title he lost last year. Williams paired with R. Harte '17 repeated the doubles victory of last year by defeating their team-mates, G. C. Caner '17 and L. Curtis '16, in the final round of the doubles. These victories bring the University point total to five, seven being necessary to gain possession of the cup. Princeton has one point to its credit...
Yesterday's victory over Yale added another to the hard-won major sport championships to the University's credit. The year has been one of early reverses uphill fighting, and final triumph in more than one branch of athletics. The overwhelming success of the football team last fall after unparalleled accidents testified to an indomitable fighting spirit. The track team retrieved a close defeat by Cornell by winning from Yale. And now Coach Haughton, taking charge in mid-season of a baseball team which had already lost its captain, has led it to triumph. With the victory from Yale...
Professor Jay William Hudson '07, professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri, in speaking in the Union last evening on "America's conquest over Europe," said that the democracy of America must triumph over the European policy. In America the individual is the unit; in Europe the state is first considered, and is not judged responsible to the individual. International freedom of the world powers must come in the same logical reasonable way that individual freedom has come in this country...
Among the purchases for the Gray Collection are: "The Triumph of Chastity," a fifteenth century Italian engraving; two wood-cuts of the Passion after Lucas Cranach; and an incunabulum, "Book of Hours," printed on vellum, and illustrated with relief engravings on metals...
...staging is unusually successful. The living rooms look as if people might really live in them (though they might be expected to change the music on the piano once in two years) and the Cafe Espanol is a triumph. The property may came up to scratch with edible food and smashable egg, and live hens; the waits were very reasonable for a first night and the music was far better than in most professional theatres...