Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Addresses by leaders in undergraduate extra-curricular activities will feature a meeting sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The affair, which is an annual event, will be the final reception of "Freshman Week-end" and will take place in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House...
...Annual Phillips Brooks House Association Reception to new students. The leader of various undergraduate extra-curricular activities, including the Presidents of the CRIMSON, Lampoon, Advocate, Glee Club, Instrumental Clubs, and Phillips Brooks House Association will speak. There will be music and refreshments...
These extra-curricular activities fulfill the need of pursuing some special interest, of meeting classmates with similar interests, of getting experience in organizing and competing for executive positions, and of really getting to know Harvard and its students and teachers. There are many graduates (including President Roosevelt) who are authorities for the statement that they got more out of their activities at college than they did out of their courses. This is perhaps stretching a good point too far and might irk officials in University Hall, but it is certain that some activities provide experience and contacts that...
Last week the Harvard Crimson headlined the news that curricular changes announced for Phillips Academy, Andover, forecast curricular changes for Harvard. Next autumn Andover will lighten its emphasis on modern and ancient languages, increase it on history, mathematics and science. The Crimson assumed that Andover's curriculum is based upon Harvard requirements. Ergo, Harvard would change too. Harvard officials quickly disabused the Crimson editors of their notion...
This report sheds valuable light on the position of public school men in the colleges. It is evident that the high school graduate has less chance to attain distinction so far as social and extra-curricular activities are concerned, it he goes to a college where prep school men have even a slight numerical majority. On the other hand, where he predominates, the public school man seems to have every change for preferment socially and in campus activities. Indeed, the experience at Dartmouth indicates that where the prep school man is in the ascendant, it is not from any inherent...