Word: utilitarianism
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...garden and a sow, A smokehouse and a cow, Twenty-four hens and a rooster And you'll have more than you uster. Last summer Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian of Pine Bluff, Ark., chanted that solution for rural Depression as he boarded a train for New York. Last week President Hoover appointed this president of the Arkansas Power & Light Co., the Mississippi Power & Light Co., the Louisiana Power & Light Co. and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway to be one of the three Democratic directors of the potent Reconstruction Finance Corp. Aside from his demonstrated ability, Director Couch could thank...
...invested. Students are not greatly to be blamed for succumbing to a demand which has left its mark on the academic spirit itself. The congeries of technical and vocational courses in nearly all American colleges testifies to a sort of pragmatic sanction which educators themselves have given to the utilitarian spirit...
...profitably with students of various levels of ability, but only with those who are seriously in pursuit of an education and who have some conception of what it means. To introduce into the college merely professional or vocational training is to alter its character. It must substitute for the "utilitarian urge" intellectual curiosity--which is a rarer thing...
...your business worries from a soft coal man. Trouble is all he has had for the past twelve years. "To bring about the economic coordination of the coal industry," 1,000 men of science (like President Thomas Stockham Baker of Carnegie Institute of Technology) and men of industry (like Utilitarian Samuel Insull and Steelman James A. Farrell) met at Pittsburgh last week. Assembled at Carnegie Tech, the meeting was called the Third International Conference on Bituminous Coal...
Samuel Insull was barred from the directorate of The Alton Railroad by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Silas Hardy Sirawn was permitted to serve but the Commission refused Utilitarian Insull because he was chairman of Chicago & Illinois Midland Railroad, a competitor of The Alton...