Word: raisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central Committee presents another problem demanding adjustment. Last year two or three Houses received far more applications than they could handle, and when it developed that the Masters were unable to arrange an equitable distribution among themselves the Committee was created. Its raison deter is thus a lack of agreement between the Masters, many of whom now protest that they have not sufficient freedom of choice. Ideally, the Central Committee should be abolished, but since this is apparently impractical, human nature being what it is, the Committee's function should be merely that of a referee board. It should draw...
...from the dol- lar of such proportions as to have endangered the success of the policy. Hence so long as we remained on the gold standard the need for international monetary cooperation was real and pressing. With our departure from gold the whole picture was changed and indeed the raison d'etre of the conference was in large part gone. It would, of course, be to our benefit if our expansion policy were adopted by the gold standard countries. Concluding, he said, "It is, however, possible to achieve a high degree of prosperity independently. Moreover it is probable that...
Although stiffer in its entrance requirements than French 1, French 2 is of the same unfortunate lik. Occasional compositions in French, and an attempt briefly to survey the masterpieces of that tongue give it more appearance of coherence and raison d'etre than its unhappy companion, but the attitude of all concerned is one of absolute indifference and utter ennui...
...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...