Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placing of greater responsibility on the undergraduate. Probation has always had an inherent resemblance to the hickory switch and the dunce's stool, the trappings of Tom Brown education. Its disciplining fear softens the student too lax to depend on his own morale. Its interference with extra-curricular activities dates back to those harsh eras of compulsory chapel and the sideburn...
...social system, taking the term in its widest sense, is frankly extra-curricular in its emphasis. The important thing to do is to heel some organization, to make yourself known, to make a fraternity and possibly, if that summit of campus ambition can be attained, a Senior Society. One is careful, particularly during his first two years, to speak only to the right people, and to avoid those of less prominent rank. Andover men, outnumbering those from any other school, place particular importance on this sort of thing and usually excel...
...this is largely true. The competitions at Yale do, however, provide a certain experience that may prove useful in business. For those who under the present set-up can get nothing more from college, even such business education will be some achievement. The most serious objection to the extra-curricular frenzy of New Haven is that men get themselves so involved in a hundred and one different things that if and when they do conceive an interest in the more intellectual aspects of education they have no time to follow their new inclinations...
...basis on which the scholarships will be awarded, however, gives rise to some concern. While the regulations adopted by the Council are framed with masterful ambiguity, it is apparently planned to give primary consideration to participation in extra-curricular activities. Such a plan cannot e deemed to be in the best interests of the students. The extra-curricular activities deserve the encouragement of the College, but they should never be recognized as a primary aim for any student. The award of scholarships in the manner intimated by the Council would have the same effect as athletic scholarships in diverting attention...
...Council is wise, it will exercise great restraint in making its selections, While a few isolated cases may be found in which extra-curricular activities deserve predominant consideration, this cannot be true as a general rule...