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Sale of Arms. The raison d'être of the Conference was, as implied by its title, to control the private manufacture of, and the traffic in, armaments of all kinds. How was it to be done? Discussion narrowed the question down to a maxim that non-arms-producing States should not be placed at the mercy of arms-producing nations; or, inversely, nonproducers would be made producers. It followed that the sovereignties of the participating States should in no sense be infringed...
...business college in the heart of Boston should still be obliged to undergo compulsory military training. The matter is not one of pacifism or militarism now, despite the opinions of old die-hards". The point at issue is the right to shake off military requirements now that their raison d'etre has disappeared. And the right to assort this truism has been seriously infringed...
...Harvard men is that many of its thrusts apply here. Removal of every possible curricular restriction, elimination of unintelligent extra-curricular activities, the obligation of political interest--all--are constantly the goals of those who seek a more liberal and intelligent Harvard. That the College should be the "raison d'être" of the whole University is the proposition that has bound thousands together in opposition to the vocational preeminence of the graduate schools...
...Undergraduate Yale the Raison D'Etre for the Whole:--Whereas it is fitting and desirable that some institutions be centers of wholesale and higher learning, stressing graduate work, we believe that at this university the graduate schools should exist primarily because they make possible a better undergraduate system: that Yale should be distinctly an "undergraduate university...
...discrimination against the Germans in Britain, for they will, under the Treaty, be allowed to deal in non-ferrous metals, to reopen banks, to serve in the merchant marine on the same terms as other aliens. Moreover, fishing rights have been made reciprocal. Apart from its significance, the raison d'etre of the Treaty was the expiration on Jan. 10 of the trade protective clauses of the Versailles Treaty...