Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minor changes in the requirements of those who declare themselves candidates for distinction, the whole time burden of the tutorial system has been added to that of the old course system. Students have been driven either to sacrifice a thoroughly commendable interest in athletics and other so-called extra-curricular activities, or to make superhuman efforts which are not possible to the average undergraduate. The eleven officers of last year's class who graduated with distinction were of this second type. They deserve the highest praise, but even for them it might have been better had there been more time...
...publication of an official hand-book would help tremendously. Mailed to the prospective Freshman during the summer, its contents could be digested thoroughly. Such a book would cover briefly the organization of the College, its history, its machinery, its educational policies and opportunities, its standards, its extra-curricular activities, its individual characteristics, in a word, the very nature of Harvard...
...bogey of "too much extra-curricular activity" is too familiar to need much discussion. Everyone admits that outside activities have been over-emphasized, but educators, interpreting these activities through eyes trained under different conditions, are too much inclined to magnify the evil. But the charge of insincerity in colleges is more serious. This "pretense of doing more than can actually be accomplished", to which Dr. Pritchett gives greatest prominence, is, after all, a charge that colleges do not really "train the habits and powers of the mind"--the aim of a liberal education according to Dr. Pritchett...
...liberal education. The further evils of stressing business in colleges lie in the premature choice of a career which a boy must make under such a regime and in the mistaken belief of the boy that the best things which college has to offer are the social and extra-curricular activities...
...Thinking along similar lines, the Senior likewise begins to rebel a bit. After three and one-half years in studies which by no means represented his free choice, he begins to see that now if ever should he be given his chance to overstep the checks and restraints of curricular study, and to give his near-approaching seniority or maturity the benefit of a self-realization campaign. To this end, how happy the free-lancing in such promising courses which he had never before been able to take, not even with the supposed liberality of that misnomer "distribution" system operative...