Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although in this case the dictum is from above, this bit of news fits in with a trend that sooner or later is bound to become dominant in American colleges. Prohibition has so enormously increased the emphasis on drinking as a part of the extra-curricular activity that a revulsion is already in embryo. In the future sobriety will come into vogue; the advantages of the sober or partially, sober over the obviously influenced will obtain due publicity; and the prom-trotter of tomorrow will no longer be forced to battle against an intoxication more sure though less subtle than...
...fond illusion that the administration had exhausted every available outlet for new restrictions, the announcement that Harvard will not award a degree to any of her sons who cannot maintain his watery equilibrium, comes as a pleasant indication of the University's continued experimentation in the field of curricular requirements. However, another hurdle more or less in the college race means little to the weary undergraduate after a few years practice dodging the devious man-traps lurking in and about the A.B. degree...
...CRIMSON are the soil for the seeds from which grow that hybrid individual known as the Big Man. Every year there is a group of undergraduates who visualize a far off goal of supremacy where they can bask in the glow of multitudinous activities. All forms of extra-curricular work, among them the CRIMSON, have the misfortune to be included among the rungs of the ladder that leads to this Nirvana. And so this feeling grows in proportion to the number of activities that are available, and the most unfortunate part of the whole idea is that it is built...
...editorial printed below, however, Princeton is proceeding to a solution of the problem in her own manner, calmly, naturally, and without anything in the nature of an academic revolution. This panacea consists in sub-dividing the university architecturally, as at Harvard and Yale, but in making the units curricular rather than social. Witness McCormick Hall and the Mathematics Building. With the completion of Dickinson Hall, the reform will be complete; it will only be necessary for us to realize that the problem has been solved...
Finally there are at least two advantages which probation offers which Mr. Clark does not consider. In the first place the restriction of the privilege to engage in extra-curricular activities resulting from probation acts as a check upon those students who are unable to engage in them without detriment to their academic pursuits. Probation unquestionably concentrates the faltering student's faculties upon his work more than any warning could, and it is not always the inferior student who needs this help from above. And lastly punishment has from time immemorial been an influence on the lives of men. There...