Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Puritanism is a good thing, he observes, because it shows that at heart these young people are essentially good. All they need is guidance. And it is guidance that Professor Sherman will give them, willy-nilly. With all his talk about "moral idealism," he bases his advice on strictly utilitarian principles. Here are these existing conditions; make the best of them. Make your efforts at "self-expression", your attempts to "live a fuller life" "do the greatest good to the greatest number...
...CRIMSON believes, as it believed last year, that a building which all will use, and which will be a constant active reminder of the ideal which it represents, is the only memorial worth considering. A dormitory, as Harkness at Yale has proved, can be made to combine admirably the utilitarian with the ideal: and a memorial gymnasium would have the double value of service to the youth of the future while it commemorated most appropriately the service of the youth of the past...
...then only, will the college be even approximating its ideal. These are the sole ways in which to attack the problem; for the student himself who is so weak as to rely on "notes" for a passing mark cannot be convinced of the evil of his ways by argument, utilitarian or otherwise. The hypodermic must be put out of his reach...
...quite understandable; in fact it expresses a noble ideal, and since the committee is in an influential position, its words must be heeded. Unfortunately, to our way of thinking, the conception of such a memorial seems to indicate a confusion of relative values. In the fear of putting utilitarian motives uppermost, the committee goes too far to the other extreme, and forgets that however fine abstract memories may be, and however eager the University is to express its gratitude in the most ideal terms, still there is a higher ideal--the humanitarian. To perpetuate the Past is a purpose with...
...past, the CRIMSON has expressed the opinion that a dormitory would be the finest possible memorial, one which would be a far more constant reminder than an unused monument or a chapel. Harkness at Yale, the Walker Memorial at Technology, and our own library, are all examples of highly utilitarian buildings which never lost sight of the memorial purpose for which they were erected. As long as the CRIMSON believes that undergraduates, at least, favor the practical ideal rather than the abstract, it will earnestly continue to support the proposal for a memorial dormitory. Meanwhile, expressions of opinion from others...