Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relation to others; to prove to the world that we in seeking known! edge rather than more immediate and spectacular benefits, have chosen the better path to real happiness and success, which is realized in the broader and more sympathetic contacts with the world. We choose our extra-curricular activities with a view to meeting our individual needs in the process of fulfilling that desire. In this capacity, who can say that Phillips Brooks House does not have as great a potential appeal to the prospective Harvard student as does the hope of winning a berth on the University football...
...vital elements of every true extra curricular activity are first, eager, spirited competition; second, a more or less public reward. Neither of these is absolutely necessary or even necessarily desirable for the relatively few genuinely interested in whatever activity they are engaged in. These few would row even if there were no crews; they would write sonnets even if there were no Advocate. And, correspondingly, the men who are interested in the work of the Phillips Brooks House are now engaged in it, without any desire for public recognition nor for soul-hardening competition...
...second motion recommended a change which must be passed by the Athletic Committee before taking effect. But it is significant in itself as showing the beginning of a tendency to relegate extra-curricular activities to their proper relative positions as educational factors. Those who have lately doubted the student's wish to be educated may find assurance in the reasons put forward for abolishing senior managerships...
...conference will start at luncheon tomorrow noon when President Meiklejohn will discuss "The Role of the College Student in Administrative and Curricular Reform". At dinner the same day Professor Robinson will talk upon "Of What Importance that the Student have a Social and Political Mission?" A breakfast discussion on Sunday morning will be devoted to problems of defining, formulating, and especially executing liberal policies in the field of student activities. The delegates will give brief descriptive and expositional reports on college forums, curricular, liberal journals, and constructive aspects of student government. The situations abroad will be discussed...
...April 26, 27, and 28, the second biennial Intercollegiate Conference on undergraduate activities will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, where delegates of all the most important colleges in the country will meet to discuss student activities outside of the regular curricular work. The University has been invited to attend, and four representatives will probably be sent to the convention...