Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON cannot but regret this latest action on the part of the Law School authorities. A system of compulsory attendance, compulsory preparation for classes, compulsory extra-curricular work, enforced by the sanction of expulsion, has been recognized to be unsuitable for undergraduate education. Certainly, it can find no proper sphere of application in a graduate, and above all, in a professional school. It is hoped that the recent incident is merely a temporary lapse and does not mark a new departure in Law School policy...
...Seldes, who was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, held several scholarships as an undergraduate at Harvard, and among his extra-curricular activities and listed membership in the Dramatic Club and on the Monthly Board...
...well nigh a quarter of a century the University has had a keen and sympathetic observer of her sons' manners and morals in the dapper person of Arthur Clement, smokeshop philosopher. His services to undergraduates, by no means confined to the realm of nicotine, have included such strictly extra-curricular acts as bailing erring wanderers from jail at early hours of the morning and keeping life in the indigent by timely extension of credit. His remarks anent discussed gastronomic situation at the University may therfore be regarded as words of rare wisd m prepart will, the fruit of long experience...
...evils. Happily, the system lacks qualities which are the cause of the almost universal criticism of the general fraternal organization rampant in this country. To be more specific, the local clubs are not end alls in themselves, nor are their membership traditions founded upon a uniform standard of extra-curricular activities so that one type is admitted to the exclusion of all others. Fortunately at Harvard nearly every individual may find in some club a congenial group. Consequently, and to the advantage of the system, no very large number of students regard any particular set of clubs with awe. What...
...they keep on trying once they learn the difficulties and pitfalls that await them. They try, in the first place, for any number of reasons. They may be brought out by a hangover of the preparatory school nation of being a Big Man around College. They may find that curricular work does not demand enough of their time to keep them busy. They may be bored. They may just wander in because they have formed the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens to the CRIMSON candidate. He may drop in after...