Word: utilitarianism
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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Aside from the artistic aspects, college musical clubs have a utilitarian purpose, namely, they help to interest in the colleges that they represent, young lads who may be prospective undergraduates, or young girls who may have some weight in determining the choice of college for those lads. Such interest is created by the club's depicting the older musical side of college life. It is not to be denied that such a concert as the Harvard Glee Club is now giving might cause the ordinary schoolboy to flee in utter boredom. Moreover, even his sister might not be intrigued...
...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...
...well acquainted with the twin chimneys of the Elevated Power Plant which rise in grandeur, as it were, from the very heart of the Freshman dormitories, and dominate the entire surroundings by their size and height. They serve a utilitarian purpose to be sure but hardly an artistic one. And yet they must needs remain although it is obvious that they detract rather than add to the scenery...