This is part of the SOURCE OR REFERENCE MATERIAL on a paper Dr. John N. Warfield was writing in 1988 titled: The Great University.
A quote from the source:"Does the university, today, have what is called a raison d'etre? I have chosen to put my question in a phrase...which ...names everything I shall be talking about: reason and being...and the essence of the University in its connections to reason and being; but also the cause, purpose, direction, necessity, justification, meaning and mission of the University; in a word, its destination."