Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone who attended the Freshman rally at Phillips Brooks House last Monday night at which the leaders of the various undergraduate extra-curricular activities explained the nature of their work must have been struck by the extraordinary good humor with which proceedings were punctuated. Not only was the serious side of undergraduate life outlined, but the spirit of affability and good fellowship and cheer was shown by the tone of the meeting. The stories which enlivened the gathering appeared as a particularly pleasant form of good clean fun. Accordingly the letter which appeared in these columns on Tuesday morning decrying...
...average Freshman who attended the meeting of undergraduate extra-curricular activities last night at Phillips Brooks House came away with anything less than a feeling of bewilderment, it is a matter of wonder. For after listening to the various exhortations to the brethren from personages ranging from the president of the Student Council right down the line to the head of the Lampoon, any Yardling might have thought that his life in college would be doomed to failure if he did not go out for at least half a dozen activities, and that at the earliest opportunity, say next Wednesday...
...choosing what extra-curricular activity to go out for, Freshmen would do well to bear in mind the concluding words of the president of the Student Council last night. For the prime activity at college is and must be the pursuit of some definite field of knowledge. It is true that the men who make study their only activity will find themselves limited as they get in the upper classes, not sharing in the activities of many. But by the same token the "popularity" men who do nothing but outside activities are likely to find at the end of their...
...course is extra-curricular and is sponsored by Phillips Brooks House, undergraduates and members of the faculty, and the churches of Harvard Square, "with the co-operation of the college authorities...
Phillips Brooks House last night was the scene of the final general meeting for Freshmen in the program to acquaint them with undergraduate activities, when heads of the various extra curricular organizations addressed over 600 Yardlings...