Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Aero Club of America, which is offering the medals, has named as the three subjects on which the essays are to be written, "Military Aeronautics," "Mechanics of the Aeroplane and Possible Technical Development in Aeronautics," and "Possible Application of Aircraft for Utilitarian Purposes." More than 200,000 students throughout the country are eligible for the competition, which is not confined to these who attend aviation schools...
...languages. But it is paradoxical to champion the Classics on the ground of their practical advantages. Their chief value cannot be measured by materialistic standards. Since they form the corner stone of the humanities, they fulfill their highest function in affording their, devotes the noble opportunity of repudiating the utilitarian theory of education
...concentration, it encourages lazy and vicious habits." He finds that he "has known more men who have lost early ideals during their four years than" he has "known men who have won new ones;" "that the greater number of the student body were desperately matter-of-fact, intellectually shallow, utilitarian, interested, the same as crass Philistines outside of College, only in money-making, women and amusements;" "That most of" his "classmates were easy materialists and hedonists, at best well clothed, clean-cut young barbarians;" and "that those men who did not drink were looked upon with something like suspicion." These...