Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granville Hicks, noted author and critic, will give a free, public lecture in the Union on January 15, it was announced today by the Committee for the Extra-Curricular Study of American History, which is sponsoring the address...
...inviting Granville Hicks '23 to come to Harvard as its guest speaker, the American Civilization Plan has delivered the most forthright possible answer to the editors of "Social Justice". That magazine in its latest issue flays President Conant for approving an extra-curricular book-list which, it alleges, "bootlegs Communism into Harvard by the backdoor." Although the writings of Mr. Hicks are specifically cited in the article as illegal liquor, the Civilization Plan has gone the whole hog by asking the scholarly radical to lecture here...
...newest extra-curricular activity in the College, thirty undergraduates are writing a series of ten radio programs, in cooperation with faculty members, which all dramatize American history for a world-wide audience. The programs will be broadcast beginning early next year by the non-commercial, shortwave stations of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, Boston...
...American history broadcasts, which are being developed with the cooperation of the faculty counsellors of President Conant's program for extra-curricular study of American civilization, will include the following subjects: meaning of the westward movement; agricultural conservation; problem of immigration and foreign minorities; history of trade unionism; history of the Supreme Court; changing concepts of American destiny; economic integration of America; American idealism and religions; history of the theatre; and public health...
...this year or next. It may never come. What is important about the Grant Study is that for the first time Harvard has taken cognizance of the need for more fully "educating" its students. Increasingly it becomes important that the student himself is the subject of education--from his curricular activities to his daily hygiene...