Word: utilitarianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Activities Center has had previous backing from undergraduate organizations and several graduate school councils. A Student Council questionnaire distributed last year showed 50.4 percent of 2500 students polled in favor of the Activities Center and 98.8 percent preference for some kind of "utilitarian" memorial...
...John W. Studebaker's Commission on Life Adjustment Education for Youth [TIME, Dec. 15] really takes itself seriously, it should delete the word "Education" from its impressive title. If the group's goal is to see that our nation's youth is equipped merely with such utilitarian skills as the secrets of job hunting, the intricacies of homemaking, the mysteries of "practical" English, and the essentials of physical fitness, then we as a nation have no right to call ourselves an educated people...
...frank partiality was justified to its satisfaction in the reasoning and documentation of its report. This stated that out of a poll of 2500 students had come 50.4 percent favoritism for a Student Activities Center and all but 1.8 percent sentiment in favor of the general principle of a "utilitarian" memorial, in opposition to something such as the embellishment to Memorial Church now leading the field...
...great stress will center on the simple impossibility of a large-scale drive for funds in competition with the Lamont Library. Any utilitarian project of SAC's scope surely requires financial backing over the million-dollar mark. First things first: let us decide what we want and then let us worry about getting it. After the first World War ten years elapsed before the erection of Memorial Chapel. Who will not gladly wait two years or more now to see something transcending a monument or a set of bells...
...especially is the issue affecting the selection of a Student Activities Center. In addition to its conference rooms and work shops, SAC would have to provide a large auditorium for the use of performers and lecturers. SAC cannot be sealed up or down in dimensions like other of the utilitarian suggestions. The need it must fill and the discomfitures it must erase are themselves...