Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent National Student-Faculty Conference held at the Book-Cadillac hotel here, considered, among other problems, the burning question of extra-curricular activities. The upshot of the discussion was that this phase of the college program demands constant adaptation to the great world of life outside the cameos, so that those activities duplicating communal institutions, such as, the press, art, and music, prevail over the non-vital projects found all too often in the academic sphere...
...conviction that this cardinal principle, the adjustment of the college to life, has been ignored in the development of an extra-curricular program at City. We have stoutly defended the cause of extra-scholastic activities in these columns, because we believe that education is not so much a process of absorption of facts and concepts as it is a functioning of the organism in response to stimuli of the social and physical environment. Book-knowledge is but the merest fraction of the learning involved in the integration of the individual to his group. It should be the purpose...
...half their time studying, and that the time spent not so doing is one of the important reasons why men go to college. It is the professor's opinion that the required work could be completed in two years, but if this were done to the exclusion of extra-curricular and social activities most of the benefit to be derived from a college education would be lost...
Without support the extra-curricular activity is doomed to mediocrity. Is there no place in the modern University for these instructive and interesting projects? We wonder. Brown Herald...
This inexcusable attitude, on the part of 1932 and 1933 men, of "letting the other fellow do it" is difficult to explain. The competitions in extra-curricular activities at the University are conducted with comparative fairness and impartiality. Rewards are in a direct ratio to sustained effort. Whether the classes of 1932 and 1933 are not capable of sustained effort, or whether they are merely incapable of any effort at all, is a question. Certainly the failure to show interest can not be excused on the grounds of inexperience for experience is not necessary...