Word: utilitarian
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...students polled, 58 percent of whom were veterans, only 1.8 percent wanted a non-utilitarian memorial. Fifty and four tenths percent of the students favored a sudent activities center, as against 17.4 percent for the next alternative...
Undergraduate opinion registered over-whelming approval for a "utilitarian" war memorial in a special Student Council poll yesterday, turning thumbs down on a monument or statue to commemorate Harvard's World War II dead...
...complete interest of the judges and most of the afternoon was consumed in a parade of some thirty costumes of evening and afternoon wear and one pair of thoroughly non-utilitarian pajamas that covered neither category...
...Council's questionnaire will list as possible choices: 1) student activities center building, 2) music center building, 3) new infirmary, 4) monument, statue, plaque, etc., 5) scholarships. Space will also be available for write-in votes for "other" memorials, and a choice between utilitarian and non-utilitarian memorials...
...Rooms, Tremont Street, Boston, on May 12, 1865, and expressed the need for a memorial to immortalize those sons of Harvard who had fallen in the Union cause, they started a controversy similar to that of the present period. Advocates of a marble column opposed supporters of a utilitarian memorial, and every group boosted its own cause. Memorial Hall was the $360,000 heterogeneous compromise theater, dining hall, and memorial transept. The transept was enlogized with the words, "There, amid the gorgeous emblazonry, shall be read their names, their academic year, their battles." And the marble tablets that cover...