Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from the artistic aspects, college musical clubs have a utilitarian purpose, namely, they help to interest in the colleges that they represent, young lads who may be prospective undergraduates, or young girls who may have some weight in determining the choice of college for those lads. Such interest is created by the club's depicting the older musical side of college life. It is not to be denied that such a concert as the Harvard Glee Club is now giving might cause the ordinary schoolboy to flee in utter boredom. Moreover, even his sister might not be intrigued...
...well acquainted with the twin chimneys of the Elevated Power Plant which rise in grandeur, as it were, from the very heart of the Freshman dormitories, and dominate the entire surroundings by their size and height. They serve a utilitarian purpose to be sure but hardly an artistic one. And yet they must needs remain although it is obvious that they detract rather than add to the scenery...