Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sixth year and laid plans for its seventh. Orthodox educators were surprised at its persistence. Black Mountain resembles no other college in the U. S. It requires no attendance at classes, grants no degrees, has no president, no fraternities, no football team. Thus unencumbered by the machinery of curricular and extracurricular activities, it devotes itself to art, music, dramatics, philosophy and what it calls "community living." Last week, the better to house "community living," the college announced plans for new buildings such as no U. S. campus has seen...
Another recommendation, that men in group four, with three important extra-curricular activities, be guaranteed admission, also seemed unwise to the Council because, "The Masters and Central Committee need to retain, in this case as in others, discretionary power...
There are, of course, some things to be gained by a specialized tutorial staff. These include community of interest among a large group of the members of the House, a library well-stocked in one particular field, and the encouragement of such scholastic extra-curricular activities as the Lowell House Scientific Society or the Dunster House Economic Society. If there was not a dominant field of concentration in these Houses then possibly these organizations might not exist. Unfortunately the disadvantages of an unbalanced staff outweigh these benefits...
Examinations will be played down in the determining of the William H. Bliss Prizes next year, Paul H. Buck, associate professor of History and recently appointed chairman of the Committee on Extra-Curricular Reading in American History, announced last night together with the names of the nominees for the prizes this spring...
...realistic solution of this dilemma would mean a compromise between numbers and the ideal of extra-curricular learning. If President Conant is still anxious for large numbers of Harvard men to be bathed in America's past, let the Program catch the Freshmen as they enter the Yard, fresh and eager to try their intellectual wings. Let the farcical Bliss Prizes be abolished and the money be given for the best Freshman essays on some phase of American civilization. This year's successful tie-up with English A can be extended to other Freshman courses, and will undoubtedly draw...