Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Competition is the keynote of Yale. Though this generalization may not be airtight, to the outsider the most noticeable trait of the Yale undergraduate is that of being "on the make." The competition takes place in athletics and other forms of extra-curricular activity. Success is measured in terms of social recognition. There exists a good deal of equality of opportunity...
After they graduate, extra-curricular "big shots" retain the competitive spirit of their college days. According to a survey made by the Personal Study and Graduate Placement Bureaus, former campus leaders meet success sooner than their loss prominent classmates. Their salaries are higher. Though the survey takes in only a small group, its findings are plausible enough to be accepted as accurate...
...circles as in others, and as one department has awarded honors to a larger number of men, others have followed suit. Requirements for distinction are flexible. Nevertheless, the figures are actually indicative of a well-marked trend towards higher scholarship. More time is now given to academic work. Extra-curricular activities--managership competitions, publications, music clubs, debating societies, and athletics have noted a decline in the emphasis given to them in undergraduate life. The tutorial system, the divisional examinations giving a central theme to the individual curriculum, and the House Plan are all indicative of a trend which is manifested...
...regulations at present are a petty and annoying hinderance to the formation and continuance of friendships which men make with students resident in other Houses. The contacts made in the classroom and in extra-curricular activities most easily ripen into friendship over the iced-tea and the Boston baked beans. The House Plan recognizes that this is true, and throws men together for their meals that they may learn to know one another. The system now in operation, however, in effect limits the influence to the individual Houses, and may, as the House Plan succeeds, result in severing the ties...
...issues and has not had practical accomplishments as its immediate goal. The Student League, however, has set before itself definite concrete purposes: among its "demands" are unemployment insurance for college graduates who do not find positions, state scholarships for needy students, and the abolition of faculty interference in extra-curricular activities. Among other things it proposes a defense of the U.S.S.R. and an "exposure of the constant trend in America towards a Fascist reign by capitalist interests." These aims as well as the participation of the National Students League in the Columbia strike and in the expedition to the Kentucky...