Word: raisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both for and against his mystical idea of "talent," and for and against his image of hard work. He is opposed to the Institution and he knows the rebel is a phony. The playwright takes no stand, he takes every stand; and his saving grace is that the raison d'etre of a bull-session is argument rather than conclusion...
...Muslims' goals were better understood and more clearly presented to the public, the defensiveness which often turns reform movements bitter would have no raison d'etre. There are already signs that the Muslims are anxious to be understood by a larger segment of society...
...means about to "end the magazine's amateur status." No one could be more aware than the Advocate staff that the Magazine's only raison d'etre is none other than to present the work of Harvard writers, graduate and undergraduate, to the Harvard community; and if I was quoted in the September 25 CRIMSON as saying that the purpose of our new biennial schedule and quarterly-sized format is to enable us to publish "more professional stuff," the quotation, in being lifted somewhat out of context, became regrettably distorted. The new format and schedule are intended to allow...
...School occasionally does try to remind itself that, despite statistics, its sole raison d'etre is not to supply the best-trained clerks for Wall Street law offices. It must also keep in mind the needs of those who will become small-town practitioners, law teachers, or career government employees...
...college's raison d'etre from the beginning has been to provide a Harvard education for women. Its greatest drawing card--even during the forties when the insular women's college flourished--has been the combined attraction of the Harvard facilities, Faculty, and student body. Although Miss Ballou occasionally expressed doubts about the kind of girl who prefers co-education, most members of the Committee on Admissions have accepted the inevitable truth that the girls want to be where the boys...