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...Adriatic Sea, Captain C. P. Nelson, in command of two squadrons of thirty-six chasers, performed excellent service in strengthening the Otranto barrage at the entrance to that sea, and in operations in support of certain cruiser actions. In one of the latter, a dozen chasers gave splendid support to a combined British and Italian squadron of cruiser in the bombardment of Durazzo. During this action, the chasers not only effectively shielded the cruisers from submarine attack, but destroyed at least two submarines...
...splendid tradition the new Captain-elect steps into, and one difficult to sustain. But we congratulate Captain Hubbard of next year's team as a worthy successor to Captain Buell of the season past, and that is as high praise as it is possible to give...
...charming. Man,--now grown to man's estate and married--is undergoing the pangs of poverty, and the visit to his humble quarters by kinsfolk seems to establish more clearly his state of utter want. In the part that follows, J. J. Collier and Miss Secoy did a really splendid piece of acting. Andreyev has unfettered his wings of imagination and let them soar at will. The ecstasy, the pathos, the stabbing joy of building castles in the air, or high above a fjord, were portrayed with a remarkable degree of freshness and enthusiasm. The author has a most happy...
...much importance is not to be laid upon a temporary phase much magnified by alarmists. In the seven hundred years of Oxford's splendid history the university has built up a tradition as deep-rooted and unshakable as the Common Law. Even in 'Erasmus' day English scholars bemoaned the influx of the foreign student. The present inundation of Americans is far more likely to be absorbed by the atmosphere than to absorb it. The momentum of seven hundred years is not to be checked and swept away in four or five...
...Life of Man" is a splendid and courageous production for the Dramatic Club to undertake. It brings the same spirit of intelligent contribution to the smaller experimental theatres that "He Who Gets Slapped" brings to the professional stage. It offers, as does "He Who Gets Slapped", limitless opportunities to all the cooperative artists of the theatre...