Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practical aid to winning games, it is obvious that fall practice, which conditions the squad when conditioning is valuable, can never be satisfactorily supplanted, even by spring practice in the most deadly earnest. If "over-emphasis" is still undesirable, such practice is unexcusable; and from a utilitarian point of view, it cannot conceivably accomplish what is required...
...expounds his belief that since Democracy will necessarily be judged by other forms of government, the American trend will be fatal and will lead to decadent imperialism. This country's failure in leadership he attributes to the faults in our higher education where ethical standards have been undermined by utilitarian and sentimental tendencies...
...Purely Utilitarian...
...Therefore the Memorial must not be of a purely utilitarian nature but must have a high spiritual significance. This limits the wide field of possibilities to a Monument; a New Memorial Church and possibly the use of Holden Chapel. Plans show that a beautiful shrine could be made out of the interior, but the objection is that the building would still be known only as Holden Chapel. The chief objections to a new church are the cost, involving delay, and the fact that Appleton Chapel was built from the gift of a Harvard graduate and therefore is a trust which...
...typically representative of our nation than might have been the case had his chosen lines fallen in the field of politics. For above all he stands as a representative citizen, an all-around as well as a vastly influential and uplifting citizen, full of practical knowledge and of utilitarian wisdom, as well as versed in the love of the scholar. In the truest sense he ever has been a public man, though by profession an educator, much as another venerated Bostonian, the late Dr. E. E. Hale, was a veritable public man, though by profession a divine. For the word...