Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coventry Cathedral, smashed by the Nazis in the blitz of 1940, will rise from its ashes. Last week Britain's Ministry of Works granted a rebuilding license, thereby overruling the utilitarian objections of Coventry's city council. The council had argued that Coventry needs more schools, homes and health centers before men and materials can be spared for church building. But Sir David Eccles wrote to its lord mayor: "Can we be sure that a cathedral would be so useless? Is it always right to prefer things seen to things unseen . . . ? The echo of bombs which destroyed your...
...ignores science, so the Atheneum pays little heed to current, utilitarian fashions. Throughout a century in its present location the library has steadily become a stronger advocate of "gracious living." Tea is now served every day at four. The walls are lined with prints and busts of men from Edmund Burke to Patrick Henry; old globes and Italian Renaissance tables fill in the niches. The Trustee's room on the fourth floor is a remarkably beautiful oval room whose bookshelves contain Washington's Mt. Vernon collection, and whose cabinets house the effluvia of a conscious literary tradition, a letter from...
Read started writing poetry in boarding school, but his interest in art did not develop until he entered the University of Leeds. At that time, Leeds was a red-brick, utilitarian university which considered itself a guardian of the new age of technology and took pride in little else. Read took a general course for a year, nevertheless, and then began concentrating in law and economics...
From these small adventures in utilitarian education, it has set out in the last half-century to accomplish a dizzying task -to embrace, instruct and elevate every child and seeking adult of all classes, all nationalities, all shades of intellectual capability: to teach the sick, the neurotic and the healthy, to inspire the genius and to give the sluggard some manual ability to earn a living. The problems which lie between this noble objective and its fulfillment, the differences between the men who attempt to carry it out and the politicians who control them, have shaped the New York school...
While Quincy and his predecessors kept the University from succumbing to the utilitarian principle--the most practical education at the cheapest price--that had choked many other American institutions, the curriculum remained almost medieval. The function of the Faculty was to hear recitations, not to lecture. Students were forced to follow rigidly restricted curricula, and were made to pick up what they could from the material, virtually without help...