Word: utilitarian
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...alumni body is owed an explanation of the factors which require the limiting of Harvard's war memorial to a gesture," the Alumni Committee, which has been pushing for a utilitarian memorial since January, declared in a formal statement...
Some 20 months of deliberation came to an end with the Committee's verdict Saturday. During that time over 30 proposals for utilitarian and non-utilitarian memorials were offered...
...many quarters this news will come as an unpleasant and unexpected blow. Only a short time after the Saltonstall Committee was set up, in the Spring of 1947, a Student Council poll showed that 98.2 per cent of the College favored a utilitarian memorial, and that 50.4 per cent specifically wished for an activities center. Thirty-seven out of 43 undergraduate groups endorsed such a project. From that Spring forward, the Council and other College groups have pushed for a home for displaced College organizations...
Original feeling in the Saltonstall group favored non-utilitarian possibilities. It was the active campaign of younger Alumni, led by Daniel P. S. Paul '46 and his present active "Committee for a Memorial Activities Center," which was generally credited with turning the tide...
...February discussion of various possibilities for a War Memorial "utilitarian" choices included a Hygiene Center and an Arts Center as well as the majority-approved Activities Center...