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...Raison d'etre of the most hectic resurrection of collegiate tradition, folderol, and general social fireworks Cambridge has seen since the days of the John Held cartoon, the sixty-third Harvard-Yale football game gets under way at the Stadium today at 1:45 o'clock. The Elis are rated a strong favorite to defeat the Crimson and annex the Big Three title...
...second point concerns the statement by an unnamed professor that "Research is...the essential raison d'etre for a University." I would not for a moment contend that research is not one function of a University. Yet in this era, marked by worldwide suffering and dislocation among all classes and conditions of men, there is certainly a teaching function which is far more important than research...
...many department heads have been robbing Peter to pay Paul. Seizing upon the cutback as a golden opportunity to buy more time for experiment and research, they have purchased it at the expense of the tutorial plan. In diametrical opposition to the professors to whom "Research is . . . the essential raison d'ctre for a university" are those Faculty members who complain that financial persuasion from University Hall, which constrains them to use funds ordinarily allotted to tutorial for expansion and other departmental projects, is the real reason for the overly severe restriction of the system...
...According to the same laws, Germany exhausted herself in the depths of Russian space, was finally beaten by Allied land power. A few weeks before he committed suicide, Haushofer disclosed that he was more German than scientific. "When Germany went down," he said, "she took with her my raison d'être" Actually, Haushofer had found a new and brilliant disciple. Russia has long been interested in geopolitics, has its own version of a geopolitical institute (Moscow's Institute for World Economy and Politics), which concerns itself with the conflict between the U.S. and the World Island toward...
...land offers nothing but a thousand contradictory ways of life, centered around the false face of "the huge stuffed bird of happiness" and the "black stone on which the bones are cracked." Only "among the ruins and the bones" can man hear "the real Word which is our only raison d'etre...