Word: raisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raison d'etre of the structure can be found in the basement where, for the last month, students have used such devices as tape recorders, master voices, playback mechanisms, and individual earphones for each private booth. This is the language laboratory, Harvard's manifestation of a well-proved theory of languages instruction...
There are probably almost as many reasons for collecting works of art as there are for producing them in the first place. To the painter, the mind of the patron is something of a mystery. To the father of the work, its raison-d'etre is clear and inevitable. But those who consider themselves amateurs, if not connoisseurs, more often than not have other ideas. The most puissant dealers have proven to be agile psychologists, time and time again...
Fool's Week is dead. Long considered the Lampoon's most sincere and humorous contribution, its demise leaves the publication with no apparent function whatsoever. The community can only deplore the timidity with which the 'Poonies have permitted a tight-lipped Administration to strip them of their raison d'etre...
...college which supposedly breeds clear thinking is actually helping the student to find words and experience in which to clothe his middle class attitudes, then perhaps we would do well to regard the impact of the colleges as less intellectual than social. We therefore turn to the third raison d' etre of higher education...
...discussion is not NSA's raison-d'etre. Nor is it a rationale for participation. It is, however, hard to deny the advantage of membership and energetic activity within an organization which "represents" the mass of American college students. The Student Council has complained that the representation in NSA is phony, that student leaders are not elected on political grounds and cannot speak for their constituents in matters of national and international concern. The NSA does not pretend that its delegates are political representatives of their schools. What it does believe, and rightly, is that student leaders, elected from...