Word: raison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prevents the accusation of being exclusive. The club is not founded on the assumption that the members should have the right to choose with whom they wish to socialize but rather that whoever wants to socialize with the members should be able to join. All are welcome. The essential raison d'etre for the club is to establish an economy of scale so that the socializing of members and guests can be maximized with costs minimized. The philosophy of the Pi, both economically and socially, is the more the merrier. Is this exclusive? How can this be said to "foster...
...WELCOME TO N.E.P," reads a dimly scrawled sign on a grim black board as if an acronym alone is a raison d'etre for a new campus political group whose issues have been finely horrid to include the environment nuclear freeze Central America and whales. Soon students trickle in for the group's inaugural meeting each for a different reason, P.J. Kenney's Common Knowledge uses this fictitious organization to effectively examine why students are drawn to campus political groups a 1980's response to the lore of campus activism in the 1960s...
...drops the subject, turning instead to the future: "Maybe we have to renew our national system to take into account our pluralism. Instead of dividing, it can unite. I am ambitious about this goal. I think that I will be able to find the right formula. This is the raison d'être of Lebanon, isn't it? To create this important laboratory for the region. How can you bring Muslims and Jews together in the Middle East if the Lebanese formula for coexistence fails? In Switzerland there are many ethnic groups that could not survive unless they...
...summer school is hardly the raison d' ether of Harvard University, and some might argue that the two-month term is downright boring. But while this school's hottest session is not marked for its fast-paced student and administration activity, history shows that interesting moments, both provocative and lighthearted, do punctuate the long summer months in Cambridge...
...like to see ourselves as the Commentary of the Harvard Community. We are not knee-jerk conservatives," says Lars T. Waldorf '85, the newspaper's managing editor, adding that attacking The Crimson's editorial policy was not the Salient's raison d'etre...