Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life work, Professor Davis qualifies the second of his suggestions by insisting that it comprise a liaison between the colleges and such social endeavors as the Collegiate Industrial Research Movement. By such a means does he believe that academic interests can be vitalized sufficiently to share with extra-curricular activities in the attention of the average student...
Elections to the Society are based on the intellectual accomplishments of the candidates. Both class-room work, and extra-curricular activities requiring mental ability are taken into consideration by the committee in determining the final elections...
...fellows are connected with an undergraduate newspaper which they wish to make famous for its feats in their year, or they are bent upon making a name for themselves, or they are inspired by a faculty idealist, or they are simply overflowing with exuberance and vitality which their curricular, athletic and cheerleading labors fail completely to absorb...
...Grew, T. W. Lamont, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ambassador Haughton, Melville E. Stone, William Roscoe Thayer, and Owen Wister are only examples of former CRIMSON editors who have succeeded after college. The training that is offered by any of the departments not only possesses all the advantages of any extra-curricular activity, but in the opportunity to interview prominent men, in the varied type of work involved, and in the contacts with every branch of college activity and life which are made possible, there is an opportunity which is not to be had elsewhere in Cambridge...
...much time can you afford to spend away from your studies in such extra-curricular work? No one can tell you. It is an individual problem and a problem that each student must solve if he is to attain his ultimate goal of self-discovery. It is a problem just as real in later life as in college. Most men live and die without ever knowing their capacity. Here lies the greatest benefit to be had from outside activities. The wise student will use them to this end, will make the proper adjustment between his studies and his other interests...