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...attention has been focused upon the diatribe in TIME, of March 29, directed against the memory of the late Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, quite obviously written by one unfamiliar with the text of the old Latin proverb enjoining upon all persons of good breeding to de mortuis nil nisi bonum...
Later these same ships fought most valiantly but unavailingly against the superior force of the American Fleet, under the command of that gallant and chivalrous Spanish gentleman and brilliant officer Admiral Cervera, who justly gave merited praise to the handsome manner in which Lieutenant Hobson executed a most difficult and hazardous maneuver, under which the unarmed, frail collier was subjected to what was probably the heaviest fire ever concentrated upon a single ship, before or since...
...vast volume of public adulation descended upon Lieutenant Hobson, but overwhelming as it was it failed to turn his head, nor thereafter and in more mature years did it ever dampen the ardor of his fervent patriotism...
That the Spanish fleet which holed up in Santiago harbor was no match for the U. S. fleet, is no discredit to the bravery of Lieutenant Hobson, whose attempt to cork the harbor entrance was nevertheless a fiasco. But Reader Dohrman does not know much about his friend's era if he is not aware that two fleets were never more unevenly matched than the Spanish and U. S. at Santiago on July 3, 1898. Admiral Cervera's fleet consisted of four cruisers, three torpedo boats. One cruiser, the Cristóbal Colón, was minus...
Nerve centre of a diocese is its cathedral, and in the view of many a bishop the finer the cathedral the greater the diocese. Last week, addressing the annual convention of his diocese in Columbus, Bishop Hobson paid his respects to the life of such cathedrals as those in Manhattan and Washington, then continued: "It just happens that the situation in southern Ohio is somewhat different, and perhaps you have a rather strange bishop. . . . If someone came to me today with the offer-'Here's a million-or five million-dollars for your Cathedral,' I would have...