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Although Lionel Trilling's third collection of essay is, in deed, a gathering of fugitive pieces with little collective raison d'etre except the profits which he and the Beacon Press will reap from bringing them to a new audience, nevertheless they display Trilling as a man of letters and a critical influence, perhaps more clearly than any of his previous collections. Even in the pieces which can only be read intelligently when the reader knows the subject matter, the reader discovers a critic of remarkable integrity and perception. In most of the collection, moreover, the subject matter, the reader...
...Inter-Fraternity Council, set minimum scholastic standards which fraternities have to meet. The first year a house falls below a "C" average, it is warned by the Dean of Men. If grades do not improve the second year, the house is placed on social probation, which prohibits parties--the raison d'etre of fraternities. If academic laxness continues for a third year, the house goes on rushing and initiation probation, virtual death for the organization...
...energy in pure, abstract speculation. As Batteau points out, professional scientific papers have no raw, unfinished ideas. They contain no wild flights of imagination, no daring expeditions into the trackless and lush jungles of scientific possibility. There must be outlets for pure speculative activity--and that is the raison d'etre behind the Society. "Bull sessions and science fiction are market places for half-baked ideas," explains Batteau...
Hunt and the other directors of the Festival believe they can both please popular taste and maintain artistic standards which, after all, is the raison d'etre of the group...
...fall the Design School's Department of City Planning and Landscape Architecture began work on a more far-reaching approach: an analysis of the University as a sociological and economic institution. Urban Renewal is only one phase of this project, which aims at analyzing problems ranging form the economic raison d'etre of higher education to housing married students and faculty members in Cambridge...