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Word: curricular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed supervision opens a limited scope of social service to those of the dental and medical schools who are interested in that sort of work. In a curriculum as full as that of the two schools, there is little chance for the student to devote himself to extra-curricular activities. But by providing settlement work which embodies the features of actual medical and dental experience, Phillips Brooks House affords an outlet both practical and interesting, at same time fulfilling its first concern of aiding, the settlement children...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AIDANT AND REMEDIATE | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

This lament of Mr. Snedder is somewhat a propose in consideration of the fact that in many colleges the educational atmosphere is effectively diffused under the pressure of extra-curricular functions. However, his desire to concentrate the scope of the student, especially that of men interested in pre-professional work falls very short of helping the situation. Under the present conditions the efforts of most college men are allowed to follow one subject to the exclusion of many others that undoubtedly would be a broadening influence. The loss like a professional school the college remains, the more chance there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH THE WRONG END | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...extreme supporters of each camp. But, here at Harvard at least, it is only the extreme academist who willfully penalizes his students because they value the sort of development to be found on the athletic field or the College musical clubs. And conversely, the undergraduate managers of extra curricular activities are usually more pleased than otherwise at finding Dean's list men in their organizations. It is true that some men in the throes of a particularly difficult competition may find that time runs rather short but the usual college course allows ample lecture for active participation in at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OIL AND WATER | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

...college of the future will have no extra-curricular activities; the years will see work which is now considered by university authorities as distinct from a college course incorporated into the regular curriculum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOARES PREDICTS FUTURE MERGING OF COLLEGE WORK | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

...reason why the work done by students in so-called extra-curricular activities should not be considered as part of their college education", he said. "Certainly the contacts formed through newspaper and magazine competitions are of as much value as lectures and study, and both would be of more significance if related to one another. The future university will help the student to face the total interest of life, and his studies will become activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOARES PREDICTS FUTURE MERGING OF COLLEGE WORK | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

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