Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Prospect Union is not just another of those extra-curricular activities "deserving of undergraduate support." Its special significance for Harvard at this time lies in the fact that it offers the best and perhaps the only opportunity for College men to meet grown men from a really different social stratum on something like a common basis...
...half-hearted inefficient instruction is not tolerated, and where various measures are effective whereby students shall be inspired to a high sense of their opportunities as well as to lofty ideals concerning their duty to their college and their duty to themselves. In principle, at least, no detail of curricular work is either slurred or minimized; the system is highly professional--and so with those moral aspects of university teaching whose tenets are an inflexible morality and a righteous spirit. All immensely worth while...
...practically universally accepted that there is a vital need for co-ordination between the extra-curricular and class-room work, yet it is obviously impossible to enforce any such co-ordination...
Columbia University has inaugurated a new and significant set of eligibility rules for athletic and non-athletic activities. The new code embraces all undergraduate non-curricular activities. Under the rules an undergraduate contemplating participation in any campus activity must be free of all entrance conditions, or, if, conditioned, must be enrolled for a course which, if satisfactorily completed, will free him of all conditions within one year of entrance. This new regulation applies with equal force to athletes, debaters, musical club members, or editors of publications...
...trite complaint that the undergraduate takes his extra curricular activities more seriously than his studies. But he does this because his homelly latent philosophy is essentially a sporting philosophy, the good old Anglo-Saxon conviction that life is essentially a game whose significance lies in terms of winning or losing. The passion of the American undergraduate for intercollegiate athletics is merely a symbol of a general interpretation for all the activities that come to his attention. If he is interested in politics, it is in election campaigns. In the contests of parties and personalities. His parades and cheering...