Word: non-utilitarian
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...addition to non-utilitarian gates and plaques, Alumni have been known to make other little donations to the University-libraries, scholarships, and dollars in the amount of several score millions. Without the contributions of Alumni to the University coffers, Harvard could hardly have reached its present status, and were the golden flow suddenly quenched, the University would find it necessary to curtail many of its most valuable activities...
...students polled, 58 percent of whom were veterans, only 1.8 percent wanted a non-utilitarian memorial. Fifty and four tenths percent of the students favored a sudent activities center, as against 17.4 percent for the next alternative...
...complete interest of the judges and most of the afternoon was consumed in a parade of some thirty costumes of evening and afternoon wear and one pair of thoroughly non-utilitarian pajamas that covered neither category...
...Council's questionnaire will list as possible choices: 1) student activities center building, 2) music center building, 3) new infirmary, 4) monument, statue, plaque, etc., 5) scholarships. Space will also be available for write-in votes for "other" memorials, and a choice between utilitarian and non-utilitarian memorials...
...introduce educational innovations than their public counterparts. Significant experiments such as the tutorial system or the National Scholarship plan could never have originated in state universities, subject as they are to budget-balancing governors. Moreover, only an institution like Harvard is capable of extensively promoting research of a non-utilitarian character, the ultimate values of which may not be appreciated by the constituency of a vote-seeking politician...