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Commenting more seriously on the shriveled reputation of the French academies, the Paris Sunday newspaper Dimanche Illustré issued a questionnaire to discover from its readers "an ideal Academy of France...
...Rodney Greene, middleaged, has principles. Her campaign of goodness starts when her husband attempts to pollute their nuptial night with cigaret smoke. She bullies her son Geoffrey with sarcasm and pathos, drives him to mask his independence. Thus she realizes her own ideal of good wife, good mother. She invites the other five to a dinner-party...
...follow the plan will not pay tuition, will not attend classes if they do not wish to attend, and will not be required to take any examinations. In short they will be allowed to follow the intellectual life at Dartmouth as they see fit. This would be the ideal in education, but unfortunately few students would be strong enough to follow that plan and get anything from their university life other than a good time...
...people like the Generalin and the Baroness rendered her kudos. Now she picks quarrels with the young artist who has dragged her out of that old life. Lolo's fiance appeals to her as Hans Grill ennobled. She does not believe with Hans that "no life, even the most ideal, is possible in which for some hours every day there is not a smell of potato-soup." A servant-girl's Utopia, that! Thus the love of wife and husband becomes a subtle struggle, noble v. peasant. When Hans drowns, she takes up with a dwarf of a man whose...
Playing the game for the game's sake is a very worthy ideal, but competition is the spice of all sports and if something as ephemeral as a letter adds to the zest why seek to cast...