Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cultural benefits which their fellow-students whose financial way is paved for them, enjoy. The working undergraduate is said to be forced to disperse his energies between his studies and his efforts to "work his way through," with the result that he is physically unable to meet the curricular requirements. He then, according to Mr. Robinson, has to fall back upon the mercy of his professors, who pass him out of sympathy, thus doing injustice to him and to his fellow-students alike...
...current issue of the Alumni Weekly appears a curiously skeptical editorial. . . . It "humbly suggests" that the Princetonian adduce facts and figures to establish its contention that a general decline of interest in extra-curricular activities marks the Princeton Campus today. "Has the Princetonian made a thorough survey?" asks the Weekly (which has a "trace of the Missourian" in its make-up). If not, let its candidates set to work compiling statistics on competitions and squad turn-outs for the last five years in order that it may speak with authority...
...would be idle to attempt a summary in one sentence or in one paragraph of our reasons, frequently expressed in our columns during the past year, for the conviction that extra-curricular activities are at present on the wane. Individualism, lack of interest in all class elections, a decline of respect for a Varsity "P", thinning competitions for the Princetonian and Tiger, rough sledding for the Intime, the failing popularity of baseball, smaller squads in football, apathy in regard to "student government," the tremendous rise of informal sports like squash, golf, and tennis, consternation of advisory athletic committees about...
...last week Dean Jones's successor, Clarence Whittlesey Mendell, made known that liberalism had crept into Yale, that a new curricular plan will be instituted next year...
...what those who take no part in the extra curricular life fail to realize is that however insignificant the ends, the process of work for a cause outside of one's self is a strengthening one. It is in such work that the character and the will are best nourished, and not by introspective selfishness. --Yale News...