Word: raison
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...fact, poverty and very plain living are things which, as has been wittily observed about mariages de raison everybody thinks good for other people, but which hardly anybody thinks good for himself. It does not follow from all this that a life of luxury or of devotion to money-getting is good for professors any more than for other people. There is a measure in salaries and in money-getting, as in every thing else. Man was intended to be a moderate animal. But it does not follow from it that it is in our time and in our country...
...that the reasons which he gives for his action are convincing. Aside from the lack of pecuniary support, the proposed publication of the University Bulletin, for free distribution, edited by Mr. Winsor and a staff composed of representatives of the various faculties, will deprive the Register of its only raison d'etre; nor can it be denied that the Bulletin, under the management of our able Librarian, will be on the whole a more efficient and satisfactory publication. While, therefore, on some grounds the discontinuance of the Register calls for regret, we must acquiesce in the wisdom of the publisher...