Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition for Freshman football manager, long recognised as one of the outstanding and worthwhile extra-curricular activities for Freshmen, will begin on Wednesday, September 27, at 1.30 o'clock in the Varsity Club. This competition offers Freshmen not only an excellent way of meeting their classmates, as well as men in other classes, but affords them a chance to get acclimated to prevent them from being overwhelmed by the complete freedom of college life...
...this has been very negative. The study cards, "due or else"; the meetings in the Union, with their streams of advice and of traditional Harvard (professorial) humor; the coming attempts to draft Freshmen into various extra-curricular activities--these cannot be treated negatively by the men involved. Seriously speaking, then, the problem boils down--after the first, short-lived confusion--to this: how best can a balance be obtained between the academic and the social in a college career...
...good psychology, and it works. No planning is done by other students: there are no prescribed rites for Freshmen, no hazing. And none is done by the individual, as a general rule. Bull sessions make themselves; so do trips to Wellesley, football weekends, spring riots. Even extra-curricular activities of the more serious sort--writing for publications, playing for athletic teams, doing social service work, singing in the glee club--usually "just happen," and are the most fun that way. Until they get out of hand, they provide the balance necessary for a well-rounded education; and together, academics...
...buffet supper and reception at the Union tonight will be the opening events in a three day program designed to acquaint incoming Freshmen with studies and extra-curricular activities at the University. The buffet supper will begin at 6:30 o'clock while the reception will follow...
...time Spring rolls around, the Class of 1943 will be availing itself of extra-curricular activities not only at Wellesley, but at Radcliffe, Pine Manor, Smith, Vassar, Bennington, and a host of other female institutions...