Word: utilitarian
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Students have already been heard. They have told alumni officials that the inscription would be a useless, empty, somewhat cold kind of memorial. The vast majority of the College wants a utilitarian memorial, preferably a Student Activities Center...
About 38.000 College alumni will receive brochures backing a utilitarian war memorial. The last minute attempt to block a $60,000 plaque as Harvard's World War H memorial was started last night by the Student Council, the Crimson Key Society, and the House committees...
...inscription in Memorial Church is not an appropriate memorial, the brochure will say. It will recommend a utilitarian memorial--preferably a student activities center...
Those dissents urged selection of a student activities center or some other "utilitarian" project as a war memorial, and recommended that the directors poll the alumni before taking final action on the selection of a memorial...
...Perhaps the general disilusion over the gains of the war or a more realistic approach to its causes brought harsh criticism from all sides as to the suitability of a church to remember those who died for distinctly non-religious reasons. Some cried that such a proposal was not utilitarian enough; others called it too utilitarian. One influential group found it completely unnecessary, since the University already had a chapel which seemed large enough for the average congregation. And the Appleton family, who had given the chapel 70 years before, objected to its being razed to make room...