Word: utilitarianism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...From a Graduate's Window" we are told of a dialogue with Socrates in which that philosopher "roasts" the Fogg Museum and the Corporation's utilitarian view of architecture. On his own responsibility "Graduate" satirizes the diplomacy of intercollegiate sport, especially with relation to a certain affair between colleges "A" and "B." He closes with "two maxims, long held as truths among antediluvians: 'Do not whitewash ! Cultivate sport for the sake of sport, and for nothing else...
...overseers suggest, would be unwise. The reasons upon which the corporation bases its refusal to accede to the recommendation of the alumni are understood to be that many questions beside that of art have to be considered in connection with the erection of new buildings; that the practical and utilitarian aspects of the matter are usually paramount, while the question of art is generally of the least importance; and that the corporation cannot delegate any of its authority to another body of men. The corporation therefore declines to grant the request of the alumni...
...utilitarian theory of morals defensible...
...recall it, and think that it is all there." It lies in our own choice with what pictures we may fill our minds, whether our inward eye shall command noble prospects over the whole domain of human thoughts, or shall be bounded by the narrow alley of a merely utilitarian training...
III.The Practical and the Ideal.But ours is a utilitarian age, and what is the use of studying the belles lettres? I would find its use in the very existence of that utilitarian tendency. The mind may become as unbalanced through over-practicalism as through over-idealism, and boast as we may of the triumphs of science in its application to commerce and the arts of life, it is still only the achievements of the imagination that stir the deeper enthusiasm of mankind. Watt and Stephenson are entitled to our highest respect, but Plato holds his own, and we feel that...