Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incomprehensible to the educated than to the uneducated. To the Cornellian, academic duties serve as the background for the year's activities, and he is willing to let them stay as far in the background as his more vital enjoyments require. Be he interested in extra-curricular activities, the social whirl, or merely loafing, he allots his time so as to accommodate that interest. If something has to be neglected. It is his University work; he does not intend to let his studies, interfere with his education...
This general tendency toward a higher scholastic level is the result of a definite attitude which has manifested itself during the past few years. It is a well known fact that all of the extra curricular activities have had fewer and fewer students show an interest in them. Certain fields have felt this more definitely than others, with the managerial competitions showing the largest decrease in numbers of candidates...
...underlying causes of this decrease in interest. The most important is that men are beginning to feel the reward is not worth the effort, and of as importance, that the reward means very little more than a title in the long run. Connecting this decrease in extra curricular work and the increased number of men graduating with scholastic honors the general trend becomes obvious...
Sweezy received his degree Magna cum Laude, with Highest Honors in History, the first degree of the kind granted at Harvard. As an undergraduate, he distinguished himself in extra-curricular affairs as well as in scholarship, being President of the CRIMSON, a member of the Student council, and permanent Treasurer of his class...
...book edited by J. H. Lane '28, graduate secretary of the Brooks House will contain the usual summaries of sports, extra-curricular activities and organizations within the University Songs, cheers, calendars, publications, clubs, eating and social facilities, and the advertisements of Harvard business men will find a place in the manual for the benefit of the bewildered new-comers...