Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title "Should the Colleges Educate?" Mr. Gerald W. Johnson in the current Harper's adds a fresh current to the dark grey stream of criticism directed at the colleges. He surveys what he considers the present undergraduate body--a group of carefree young men concerned primarily with extra-curricular activities and the incidental culture which may be acquired thereby, and gives it his blessing. Since he believes the incoming tides of students lack this incidental culture in the background of their homes and schools, it is better for them to learn it at college than to bother themselves with...
This course of Sunday afternoon talks, founded three years ago under the auspices of the graduate Schools Society as a regular extra-curricular course, has been continued in a somewhat modified form during the past two winters, and has proved very popular...
...open house of a series inaugurated this year for graduate students by the Graduate Schools Society of Phillips Brooks House Association will be held tonight from 7.30 to 9 o'clock at the Phillips Brooks House, Professor E. M. Morgan '02 of the Law School will talk of "Extra-curricular Education." Music will be furnished by a quartet from the Harvard Glee Club, and refreshments will be served...
...greatest dangers inherent in the new balance of the college year are certainly the scholastic ones. All large American universities, however, are at present replete with the highly developed extra-curricular activities. These are to some extent the product of the present system of education, whereby one's study is controlled by the college officials. In changing the old educational system at Harvard there must follow a change in the position of ex-curricular interests...
...There are in general two types of extra curricular activities; those super...