Word: utilitarianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alper also observed that it would be hard to reconcile a utilitarian topic such as marriage, evaluating who washes and who drys, at "a place such as Harvard, which is supposedly a liberal arts college, and has always shied away from the applied...
...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...