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...Princeton-Harvard hockey event Saturday night. These gifts were not only meant to honor Hobey Baker, but also to benefit at Princeton the sport of which Baker was so admirable an exponent. Princeton's signal achievement Saturday could hardly have been possible without this benefit. We are swift to appreciate this fact, and while we rejoice, we acknowledge our debt. --Daily Princetonian...
...Swift Action in Fourth Scene
...fervor and devotion in this offering now! All the littleness, all the puniness of man, is compassed in this one heartrending appeal to save a Son--an appeal not granted. The dramatic rise from the Toy scene to Man's curse, uttered on the death of his son, is swift and of undeniable power. Here the dramatist is at his height--and the actors were not far behind...
...Londonderry--and after. So have been many others, but always down the centuries will ring the names of those who have fought and thought for Ireland Spenser, his fine sensibilities hurt both by the brutality of the people and by the oppression they suffered, groped vainly for a solution. Swift's bitter but powerful satire, O'Connell's virile challenge, Parnell's lyric appeal, Gladstone's unexpert but well-meaning enthusiasm-- all have been heard, been registered, and until now it might have been said, forgotten...
...submarine: by observing and imitating the zigzag course of ships under attack, the Prime Minister has learned to escape the political torpedoes that his opponents have aimed at him. But he is passing now through a narrower channel, where there is less space for manoeuvering. A straight and swift course will be his only salvation. The general election, which seems an imminent certainly, will find Lloyd George at the head of a genuine political party with definite policies, or it will find him an easy mark for the increasing broadsides of his critics...