Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other side of a picture of decreasing college interest in non-academic activities is unveiled in the statements accompanying Dean Pound's disapproval of engagement in such interests by students of the Law School, where membership in a single extra-curricular organization is found to impede scholastic work dangerously. The undergraduate, doubtless endowed with more leisure than his elder brethren, prefers to devote himself to Widener and his classes; the graduate, in an atmosphere already charged with academic responsibility, drops from grace through the endeavor to add a number not already on his crowded program...
...think that more information concerning athletics, managerial competitions and the like should be mailed to the prospective candidate for admission, because, unless he has some previous knowledge of the way Harvard is conducted, he will be so delayed that he cannot go out for extra-curricular activities which would prove of untold value to him in the succeeding years in College...
...duties of these proctors will be to give advice or assistance to any Freshman in difficulty about his curricular or extra-curricular work in College. For the benefit of men who do not arrive in Cambridge until today the complete roster of proctors is given again...
...Harvard Advocate, Mr. Slocum, who, besides having a reputation as an athlete has been held in such high esteem by his New York friends that he has been President of the Harvard Club of New York, makes a plea for the educational and disciplinary value of extra-curricular activities. There is much to be said on his side...
While it cannot be said that the Harvard undergraduate has only now discovered scholarship, it is undeniable that the stimulus to intellectual endeavor is greater than it probably has ever been before. The falling off in extra-curricular activity is a natural concomitant. The undergraduate publication stands upon the judgement of its own creators...