Word: utilitarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report of the Associated Harvard Clubs committee, published yesterday, expressed a very definite opinion. The members, according to their report, are opposed to anything of a utilitarian nature. They believe that a memorial should exist for its own sake; its primary purpose should be to keep before the minds of Harvard men the sacrifices made by their fellow-students and graduates in the War, and they fear that a dormitory, gymnasium, or auditorium would obscure the ideal for which it was erected. Therefore they conclude that something in the nature of an ornamental monument, a belfry, or a new chapel...
...Which phrase may apply to any specific case on Mr. Gavit's list-and through that to a large number of college undergraduates. Indeed, it is a fine question how many of us are, in this regard, entirely sane. For there may be athletic as well as scholastic, and utilitarian as well as social, insanity. He who has set his heart entirely upon major letters and final clubs is in no better case than he who would win high grades and a Key; and the man who indulges in an overdose of extra-curriculum activities is no better off than...
...Frankly utilitarian, we believe that honesty is the best policy because it pays. And it does pay for the individual because there is an organized society to make dishonesty unprofitable. But what is there to make national dishonesty--or aggression or whatever--unprofitable? Nothing that is evident to the eyes of the majority; therefore when, in the crisis of war, nationalism comes rampant to the fore, we say "A fig for rules...
...these times will suffice; and the steady cost of maintenance for only sporadic uses make the plan economically unsound. Some thinkers have devised a scheme of a building part hall and part gymnasium. A singular marriage. Some graduates hold that the memorial shouldn't be of any base "utilitarian" character, but purely a work of art, monument, sculptural or both...
...comment of a Princeton graduate published below is testimony of the high admiration which men of other colleges hold for the work of the University Glee Club; but, in addition to his praise, there is a note of doubt in regard to the success of the club from a "utilitarian" aspect. "Such a concert as the Harvard Glee Club is now giving might cause the ordinary school boy to flee in utter boredom," he says. In this way, an intellectual victory may become a practical defeat in turning away from the University desirable students. The secondary purpose of a Glee...