Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foil to prove the raising scholastic standards is the decline of interest in extra-curricular activities. Men are not competing for sport managerships in as great numbers as formerly. Changes in the system have to be made and the work has to be lessened in order to draw men out. Extra-curricular offices are less enticing because of the greater interest in the regular college work. The increasing sane attitude towards athletics is also evidence of this reawakened scholastic endeavor...
...charge often levelled against the Princeton undergraduate by outsiders--namely, that he is cast into a certain inevitable mould by the time he has run the gamut of extra-curricular activities, clubs, week-ends and final comprehensives--must be recognized as having an element of truth. There certainly is a definite "Princeton manner" and attitude toward life which is more especially observable in the Princetonian when he is away from college and alone in an alien society. Debutantes call it "smoothness" and idolize it, but others are inclined to characterize it as everything from "snobbishness" to "pseudo-sophistication...
...University is constantly requiring that the student spend an increasing amount of time on his work, in order to meet the higher scholastic standards, the opportunity for extra-curricular activity will inevitably be further limited. Athletics, essentially secondary in importance, must conform to the trend and the proposal to discontinue the spring trip is moving in this direction...
...where they too would be ready for emancipation. A link would thus be made between the schools and the colleges and the problems of adjustment would at least find partial solution. In addition the adviser should help the student to form a standard of values in regard to extra-curricular activity and social matters which he might never work out for himself or which he might delay until much of its value was lost. Increased emphasis on the function of the adviser may serve to gather together the loose ends of the Freshman year...
...much as the men in the College that their inclusion in the House Plan is not only justifiable but entirely logical. If not bound together with their academic brothers through the classroom, they are the more mutually interested in each other through common participation in athletics and extra-curricular activities. The friendships formed in these phases of university life will be furthered now that all undergraduates are together in House Plan...