Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vocational training. The utilitarian side of education increases. A larger emphasis is being placed on post-graduate training for business. Because of a larger and more liberal interpretation of business, and because of purely scientific research into industrial processes, the bounds between a profession and a trade are narrowing...
...rose before his colleagues in council: "In all the 60 years that have elapsed since the war there has not been one great dramatic poem written, one lyric equal to the soldiers' songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here-songs of the vulgar type. "The most dramatic and the most pathetic...
...bring forth no fruit. He himself once said that one might as well "try to nail jelly to a wall" as to try and negotiate with Colombia. The President did not foster the revolt, but he sympathized with it and helped it after it had broken out. From a utilitarian viewpoint, if from no other, his actions were entirely justified. Even so great a critic as Lord Bryce endorsed his policy...
...business men to direct such enterprises is fairly obvious. This does not mean that for the purposes of a liberal education, business control is best. It means merely that with regard to the present purposes and tendencies of education, such control is only natural; or conversely, that long continued utilitarian direction has finally created a corresponding spirit in most of the colleges. That this spirit is not yet universal is occasionally evidenced by such outbreaks as the one at Millikin...
...same time it is possible that Mr. Brown, in his enthusiasm, has stressed his cause too far. The wide spread tendency to take up utilitarian courses, particularly in the state universities, may also be an explanation for the present scarcity of men in the field of letters. It requires an active imagination to believe that the presence of women in classrooms is wholly responsible for a condition that seems symptomatic of some deeper, more fundamental cause. And even if there is no other immediately apparent reason, it is somewhat unkind of Mr. Brown to shed tears over the degeneracy...