Word: utilitarians
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...student population here would have its views represented on the 11-man body through Richard G. Axt, Jr. '46, last year's Student Council President. It was during Axt's tenure that a College-wide poll showed over-whelming support for a Student Activities Center as a logical "utilitarian" choice...
...meeting last December, heads of the five leading Law School extra-curricular activities had indicated that a majority of them would prefer "a more utilitarian" project, such as a dining hall or a new dormitory. However, their opinion was never made public; and few students at the School are aware of the controversy...
Reginald H. Smith, Jr. '37, treasurer of the Law School Association, voiced official rebuttal last night to the request for a more "useful" memorial. "Nothing will have greater utilitarian value, beauty, and dignity" than the Treasure Room. It "can be used by scholars from all over the world," he stated...
...addition to non-utilitarian gates and plaques, Alumni have been known to make other little donations to the University-libraries, scholarships, and dollars in the amount of several score millions. Without the contributions of Alumni to the University coffers, Harvard could hardly have reached its present status, and were the golden flow suddenly quenched, the University would find it necessary to curtail many of its most valuable activities...
...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...