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Cast in a Victorian mold, Louis N. Parker's play of a Victorian statesman, whose vision raised both his country and himself above the throttling influences of the period, was enthusiastically received Monday evening at the Copley. The play, so the program states, is a romantic comedy. And, indeed, this description is in some respects more accurate than calling it a historical comedy would be, for although the interest centers about an actual historical figure in the act of accomplishing an undertaking of historic importance, the material has been so treated that the result frequently resembles more the conventional melodrama...
...nothing more. Quite rightly they insist that if anyone is to suffer as a result of the barbaric war, it must be Germany-not France. To those who have not seen the awful horror of war this may sound shortsighted; but when the steel wall of need intercepts the vision, no one can tell what is on the other side. Resistance. The effect of increasing the military forces in the Ruhr by 20,000 men and tightening their control in the occupied area is leading the Germans from passive to desperate resistance. Last week the Reichstag voted a credit...
...compulsory attendance at classes?" Among thoughtless students and hasty enthusiasts, as well as among those sincerely interested in college problems, that query has grown daily more frequent. The prospect of a college without monitors seems now like a utopian vision; yet other institutions have been known to survive without them, and the idea of making attendance voluntary has not only been considered here already, but has been put to an actual test at least once during the last half century...
Some of them seem to think so, for they are attempting, in their latest craze for being " primitive," a thing really opposed to the earlier phase. They are trying to get back to the " unspoiled vision" of a child or a savage; which is the same as looking "out" instead...
...career sinks to a job. The engineer, as Colonel Wilgus explained, who thinks only in terms of girders and logarithms becomes a salaried adviser; the one who sees his building as a part of a city's progress becomes a leader. Emerson was speaking for this broader vision when he said that it was a fatal tendency of society to disintegrate into men in cubby-holes, each seeing the world through the narrow opening allowed him by his profession...