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...will be attracted. Such a development will be slow because it involves not an official change of standard, accomplished like a ukase with a stroke of the pen, but the gradual shifting of some six hundred individual points-of-view. When first established, the free elective system seemed the magic formula which was going to bring about this composite metamorphosis, but the abuses which crept in with this formula made it evident that some revision was necessary. The present system of regulated choice of electives, substituted instead, has not so far accomplished the desired change, but, grafted...
...Milne's magic delicacy runs elusively through "The Truth about Blayds", which Boston is seeing for the first time at the Copley this week. There is none of the near-burlesque of the "Dover Road", and no such whimsy as in "Mr. Pim", but here is a hint of something growing in the young Englishman's art: he is holding his own fascinating traits, and picking up power and sincerity to add to them. In this play he touches upon a problem, and while he refuses to come to grips with it, he approaches near enough to size...
Ever since the days of 1918, when the Germany army retreated across the Rhine, army corps from five different nations have been occupying the Western bank, forming there a sort of magic circle. Germany has been playing in her own back yard, while the erstwhile allies have been sitting on the fence. They have come to no agreement for Germany has been unwilling to give up all her toys, and no one can suggest a satisfactory way to make...
...least, are satisfied by careful investigation that Germany is not playing hypocrite; France, Italy and Belgium, from the same evidence, have come to the contrary conclusion. Since they are in the majority, and are able to cite the authority of the Reparations Commission, they have proceeded to enter the magic circle. At the same time, significantly, President Harding has noted on the Senate recommendation and ordered the American troops home. Great Britain seems on the point of taking the same step...
...ridiculous if it were not so ominous in its potential results. France has not necessarily committed a hostile act: in her own official words, she is merely sending "a mission of engineers and functionaries" to supervise details of carrying out treaty terms, and nothing more. But the magic circle has been broken. With the spell lifted, there is no foreseeing...