Word: raison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seems that they are unquestionably right. Granted that the Tree is a Senior affair, the ladies, and as many of them as possible, have always been the attractive feature and in fact the raison d'etre of the exercises, and the more their number is reduced the less successful such exercises will be. If their number is reduced the other classes will begin to lose interest in the affair, and Harvard can not afford to let slip her single annual chance of getting the whole body of undergraduates together. Moreover the graduates who attend the exercises add zest...
...drawers in the same column with the one which you wish to use. Nor do I refer to the law which denies holders of cards the access to any of the newer stacks, although that limits the conveniences which the library affords. These rules probably have some raison d-etre. But what possible reason is there in prohibiting men from carrying their bags within the library? If a man goes to the library with a bunch of notes and loose papers, with perhaps some pamphlets and books of his own, with ink, pens, pencil, eraser...
...scholarship fund makes possible for members of the Club a post-graduate course of study at Cambridge. It has already more than proven its raison d' etre. The present incumbent is doing particularly fine work in the graduate department...