Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Possible application of aircraft for utilitarian purposes...
...essays are to be written on any one of the following three subjects: military aeronautics; mechanics of the aeroplane and possible technical development in aeronautics; possible application of aircraft for utilitarian purposes...
...good work of the 21 men from the University, the 12 Yale men, and not less than 50 members of other universities who learned to fly in the past summer caused the Aero Club of America to conclude that great developments may be expected in aeronautics from a utilitarian, scientific, as well as a national defense standpoint, through interesting the 200,000 university students to whom the contest is open...
...significant thing, no doubt, is the offer of this sort of academic reward by America's greatest University. It involves a far departure from John Harvard's ideal of college training and implies a suggestive concession to utilitarian ideas of education. It is the fatal first step? Will there yet be regular courses in plumbing at Harvard and post graduate instruction in gas-fitting? Will retired bathtub manufacturers endow professorships there and steel-makers and motor car manufacturers found technical schools and establish scholarships in their lines? There are more things in a modern college education than were once dreamed...
...desire to enter the contest. The three subjects for the essays in the contest, which is open to more than 200,000 students throughout the United States, have been designated as, "Military Aeronautics," "Mechanics of the Aeroplane and Possible Development in Aeronautics" and "Possible Application of the Aeroplane for Utilitarian Purposes...