Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Annual Reception of Phillips Brooks House Association, Phillips Brooks House. Speakers; leaders of various undergraduate extra-curricular activities. Music and refreshments...
...Student Council continues today with more or less the same general purpose. Its duties and services are many. In the first place it guarantees the financial success of all Freshman extra-curricular activities, such as dances, the Red Book (the annual yearbook), etc. This year a fund has been set up for the use of the Freshmen at any time. This fund can be borrowed to start any project, the money to be returned later. Further, a donation is made of $300 to defray the expenses of the annual Freshman Smoker...
...courses were reformed to a great extent; two members of the Council forced through a revision system of Freshman elections which made them somewhat intelligible; finally, the Union Committee became conscious before its term expired and made some order out of the chaos of first year extra-curricular activities and provided reviews for Freshman course work...
This delay has often caused loss of interest in scholastic work, due, in large measure, to a new absorption in the relatively more entertaining field of extra-curricular activities. In itself this cannot be deplored except in that the former scholastic drive often remains dormant even after the first-year rules have been lifted and the signal is set to go ahead. Extra-curricular interests such as publications, instrumental clubs, debating, the Glee Club and the like can become extremely absorbing and books and scholastic requirements are easily pushed to one side till some later date; a date which grows...
...other beneficial effect, the widening of Plan B will at least prevent this unnecessary diverting of the interest of the really advanced freshmen into purely extra-curricular channels. However, taken in its broader light, one can read the beginning of the end of the fallacious system of entrance examinations and the dawning of a day when the general development of a student at his preparatory school will be accepted as a major factor in determining his fitness for admission. This day will undoubtedly come, and it can be safely forecast that the recent action of the Faculty Council has done...