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...Owing to the retarding effect of petty battles between the two major Japanese political parties which are hardly more divergent than the Republicans and Democrats in the United States, almost all remedies for the situation possible through legislation have been held up. Herein lies the 'raison d'etre' of the militaristic movement; its supporters are men whose points of view are in most cases apparently behind the times, but who are aware of the necessity for a unified national front, political and economic, if Japan is to be prevented from falling back into its nineteenth century oblivion...
Nothing comparable to the Oxford Union Society exists at Harvard today. This organization, now a real power at Oxford, was founded in 1823. In its origins it was purely a debating society, and now, after a hundred years, debating remains its raison d'etre. The first inter-collegiate contest in which it engaged was in 1829, when the representatives of the Cambridge Union were met at Oxford. William Edward Gladstone, then President of the Union, arranged this meeting. The motion on this occasion read, 'that Shelley as a poet was superior to Byron." The Oxford men defended creditably their late...
...exhibition not only gives a raison d'etre to the past activities of the society but also prepares the ground for the future. The promise of a well thought out program is most welcome...
...full moon in Cambridge is like a campaign speech of "Fighting Bob" La Follette's before a group of deaf mutes. In the country there is some raison d'etre for a moon. Mountains, valleys, and tall timber are creatures of the night. They take on new lustre and majesty in cool October moonlight, and the awkwardness of day is softened. There have been, there are, and there will be many apostles of the moon. An Emperor or of Rome, one Caligula, a mad wight, once paid court and married her. He died soon after, broken hearted and without...
...year is reviewed, it will be found that Beta Theta Pi gave a musicale, that another fraternity gave a play, and one or another gave "bear parties." But that is all. Presented with such a record it would be difficult for any group to maintain it had a vital raison d'etre. This, even the undergraduate reluctantly acknowledges, yet remains inactive in strengthening-the tottering position of his institution...