Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five phases of the respite are considered in the report, which deals in turn with the matter of examinations, students' work during the reading periods, competitions and extra-curricular activities, tutorial work, and absence from Cambridge of students during the respite period...
COMPETITIONS AND EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
...Amherst for the limitation of the activities which may be undertaken by, or thrust upon, any one student in the college, is one more step along the road that many American colleges seem to be travelling. It has been many years now since the constant; grinding strain of extra-curricular activities first began to be commented upon to the disparagement of the colleges which allowed them to rob their students of every moment of their academic leisure. It has been at least as many years since the whole round of these activities was imported entire, and in some cases...
...easy, and not infrequently interesting; and why not? As long as one hundred and twenty-four points are required for a sheepskin, as long as the time of both kinds of students is so completely taken up, just so long will snap courses fill a defendable want in the curricular mart...
...Tibbetts entered the University from Worcester Academy, and was prominent in the extra-curricular activities of his class. He was Social Secretary of the Phillips Brooks House, member of several undergraduate clubs, rowed on his class crew, and served as Treasurer of his Class Day Committee. Graduating from College in June, 1917, he assumed, in February, 1918, the duties of the office of Graduate Secretary, filling the place left vacant by the resignation of A. F. Bean '03. In this capacity he has served ever since his graduation...