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...honor and respect their parents. They are subject to parental rule until the age of majority (18 for boys, 25 for girls). Such rule is exercised by the father; if he should prove incapable in this, by the mother (Art. 220)." "The child cannot abandon his home without the explicit permission of the ruling parent...
...Balderston's charming and successful play has lost little in its transition to the screen. It might be objected that the screen has made the throwback to the eighteenth century too explicit, and thus jeopardized the theme by an unnecessary contact with reason. But so much of the delicacy of this journey between centuries is the mind and heart of a single man has been preserved that the objection would not be fair. Leslie Howard is just as convincing as he was on the stage, and his witty pantomime responds admirably to the great opportunities, and the greater responsibilities...
...that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself with engineering the situation that brings everything off. He is a clumsy device on the stage; he is clumsier, because more explicit, in the written homily...
...judge from Fascist editorials, Cook Mussolini favors: 1) explicit divorcement of the League Covenant from the Treaty of Versailles (which Il Duce has long held should be revised to appease Germany and bestow on Italy certain territories which she was promised before she entered the War but failed to get at the Peace Conference); 2) expulsion of common nations from the League Council which would become a permanent committee of Great Powers, nebulously "responsible" to the Democratic League Assembly of all states; 3) drastic reduction in League expenditures and personnel on the theory that Geneva has become a hive...
...tutors, and capped by a general examination. The solution was the British one; soon it became obvious that the college must be broken up into smaller and more manageable units, that the internal structure of Harvard College should duplicate that of the bundle universities of England. Yale, more explicit, called these units colleges; Harvard was content to call them Houses. Having begun the work of education along the lines that a diverse modern civilization made necessary, Mr. Lowell retired, trusting that the course system would gradually give way, and become, as the lecture system, the efficient handmaid of men working...