Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When undergraduates take the first examination on their extra curricular reading in American History, one of President Conant's finest innovations will leave the blueprint stage for the realm of concrete reality. These students will participate in a program which should mean much both to the individual throughout his life and the wider society which he will join...
...extra curricular study of American History thus is twice blest. It helps the individual to grow in wisdom after he leaves the Yard and it gives the public an ever growing appreciation of our past that might be the "common denominator among educated men which would enable them to face the future united and unafraid...
November 15 has been set as the date of the first examinations for undergraduates for the William H. Bliss Prizes in American History, it was announced yesterday by Howard M. Jones, professor of English. The examinations are under the auspices of the Committee on the Extra-Curricular Study of American History, of which Jones is chairman...
Believing that "a course taken under compulsion at the college age" would not meet the need, President Conant appointed a committee of the faculty to prepare an "extra-curricular reading list" for the purpose...
Even with extra-curricular activities honey-combing the university life of today, there is still a relation between students and books, and Widener Library should be that connection at Harvard. This relationship may no longer be a true Damon-Pythias one, but the 1937 student is well aware that an acute knowledge of what other people have written is not enough to guarantee his own success in post-college life. Instead, it has become clear that books should guide and stimulate individual and original thought. The contact between the student and his book has, as a consequence, shifted its basis...