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...Thursday's opening meeting, scheduled for 2:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre, Forster will set the key of the Symposium with his paper on "The Raison d'Etre of Criticism in the Arts." The meetings Thursday and Friday will be held in Sanders at 10:30 o'clock, and discussions of the morning's addresses will take place at 4 o'clock on both days...
Thursday, 2:30 o'clock-Meeting in Sanders Theatre; chairman, Archibaid T. Davison. Address by Paul H. Buck. Provost, "The Raison d'Etre Criticism in the Arts"-E. M. Forster; "The Scope of Music Criticism"-Roger Sessions. 6:15 o'clock-Concert of Chamber Music in Sanders Theatre by the Walden String Quartet. New Compositions: Bohuslav Martian, String Quartet; Op. 6; Walter Piston, String Quartet, Op. 3; Arnold Schonenberg, String Trio...
...Plain Talk (Harper, 1946). For $2.50 anybody can buy the formula, can test his own stuff. That people don't, for various reasons (i.e., it's a lot of work, people worry more about what they say than about how they say it), is the raison d'être of "readability experts...
Pound looked beyond the legal mechanism--beyond the maze of particular rules and forms in the workings of the judicial system--to the ideal element in the law and the raison d'etre of a legal order among men. What he discovered startled the juridical world of the early twentieth century. Law was not an end in itself for the sake of stability alone; nor was it a mere ordering of individual wills in the interplay of vicious competitive forces. The job of law was to harmonize conflicting interests in society through the force of an organized political structure...
Speaking on "The Raison d'Etre of Criticism of the Arts," Forster, coming from England especially for the event, will be joined on the lecture stand of the first meeting by Roger Sessions, professor of Music at the University of California. President Conant will welcome the gathering...