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Hopper is Wang's Raison d'Etre...
...goes on to say that on demand, and not on limited supply, can be found the panacea for which the laboring classes search. The significance of this is apparent, and Mr. Strachey brings it out in discussing Labor as a partner of industry; for, as demand is the raison d'être of wealth derived through the medium of Labor, it should govern Labor's attitude to employers, to strikes and to itself. In other words, to borrow Mr. Strachey's simile, if Labor wants a larger share of the cake, a larger cake must be made...
...novel deserves to be suppressed only when it has its "raison d'etre" in immorality or indecency. Such a ruling would affect home-bred American books fully, as often as the much-warned-against French ones. As for the Classics, in whatever language, the very fact that they are classics shows them to be sound and healthy, or they would not stand up today before public opinion, as fresh and vigorous as two or three centuries ago, when they were written...
...came the complaints of parents: "Behold, we have sent our children to be instructed; wherefore then, do they roll rocks?" And indeed this was true; no longer did anyone come there to gain training of the mind. They came only for the great sport of Rolo. Rolo was the raison d'etre of the university, the paramount appeal to the people of the Inca realm. The furore which this revelation caused must have been tremendous, says Senor Alvarotez. The cry was taken up on all sides. Leaf after leaf of the college paper was covered with wild appeals to reason...
While the Peace Conference is industriously concocting a number of bitter potions for Hunnish consumption, it would perhaps be pertinent for the University to ruminate upon the ultimate destiny of the Germanic Museum. Like the German "kultur" whence it sprang, the continuation of its raison d'etre is no longer desirable, unless, of course, we should decide to perpetuate the results of "kultur" in an up-to-date chamber of horrors. The problem of disposition must somehow be solved. At present it is but a monument of disputed architectural beauty, and of no practical benefit to its founders...