Word: utilitarian
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...great presidents was John Leverett. Layman and liberal in an of office always before filled by puritan ministers, he refused to see his College turned into a Calvinist school of theology. In puritan-dominated New England, these views were regarded as dangerous. Leverett wanted a liberal arts college; his utilitarian neighbors wished to see their sons taught practical skills...
While Quincy and his predecessors kept the University from succumbing to the utilitarian principle--the most practical education at the cheapest price--that had choked many other American institutions, the curriculum remained almost medieval. The function of the Faculty was to hear recitations, not to lecture. Students were forced to follow rigidly restricted curricula, and were made to pick up what they could from the material, virtually without help...
...good for General Motors is good for the country." Not knowing Charles Wilson's ideas concerning his moral philosophy, but hearing it said . . . that he is a man of unquestioned integrity and honesty, such a statement as accredited to him suggests strongly that he is a staunch utilitarian...
...present heyday of high pressure University dining halls where diners are dealt with the speed of a card simile, leisure and elegance are otter deemed obstructions to progress. In this utilitarian atmosphere, the Lowell House High Table, a very elegant and leisurely formal dinner of the House's master, tutors, and invited Seniors (chosen in rotation) comes as a curious anomaly...
Buckley's Christianity and individualism are both queer animals. He condemns, for example (in detailing the Godlessness of Yale's student organizations) a magazine whose position is that "the Christian philosophy is the most adequate, the most persuasive, the most conducive to understanding." Hogwash, says Buckley: "...such a utilitarian conception of Christianity, coupled with...steadfast refusal to proclaim Christianity as the true religion (which is what all genuine Christian leaders proclaim it to be...) is a sample of the adulteration of religion to the point that it becomes nothing more than the basis for 'my most favorite way of living...