Word: utilitarian
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...Conant's first point was that privately endowed colleges are able to direct attention more towards those aspects of education and research which are not utilitarian in nature, and which "to the shortsighted appear useless...
...steps of the altar, three college presidents in last Thursday's issue of the Cornell "Daily Sun" came forward to defend the censorship of college publications. They too spoke calmly and rationally. There was none of the fascist in their words; their arguments were built on the homely, utilitarian premises of present-day America. And the reader paused to re-examine those premises...
...whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged by the Washington correspondents. The music, with no particular motif to follow, becomes largely a utilitarian accompaniment to fit the rhyme...
Others, however, offer striking examples of modern beauty with a light struck Latin-American tinge. Because the photographs portray several types of Mexican architecture from early Baroque to modern utilitarian schools, they are sure to be of interest to students in any one of the architectural fields. Pictures of modern low-cost housing units in Mexico City are side by side with views of 16th century Franciscan arches...
Thus Manhattan learned of the fourth and least utilitarian of the great Guggenheim foundations.* Announcement of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation came from the donor's lawyers. Old Mr. Guggenheim was in Europe for consultations with Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, who helped him make his collection of pure "nonobjective" paintings, lately shown in Philadelphia (TIME, Feb. 15). Now housed partly in the Guggenheim house at Port Washington, N. Y.. partly in Mr. Guggenheim's apartment at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, the collection will be the nucleus for a museum of abstract art of which...