Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potent: not even the most basic conception of "school spirit" serves in Cambridge as it does at New Haven or Princeton to tie atomized particles of the student body together. Here one proud band isolates itself behind the classic walls of its clubhouse, another huddles around its extra-curricular typewriter, a third feeds rich tears to its social conscience twice a day; only the haphazard democracy of the monitor and the lecturer's cold harangue brings them together...
...with alarm to the existing inadequate facilities for these groups." 'There are fewer and fewer available meeting rooms, for example,' Watson commented, "and more and more student activities. It must become widely realized at once that the situation now is not what is was ten years ago when extra-curricular interest did not run so high...
...socially conscious society; the evision of many Harvard men towards the community surrounding the college seems bounded by the same limitations. It is easy to remain oblivious to the needs of a world outside the Houses and feel satisfied with a tight little circle of friends and what extra-curricular activities the University has to offer. With only three percent of the student body entering into social service work, the College does not realize its potential donation to the Cambridge community and too many undergraduates sell themselves short on an experience that can be a vital part of their education...
This particular kind of problem recurs every year for many groups and could profitably undergo study by a Student Council committee. Such a committee might well expedite the process of securing dependable student help and of guaranteeing extra-curricular maintenance service at a price harried student treasurers can consider. In any event it would assume responsibility for a problem University Maintenance cannot handle, and incidentally, dispel much of the sincere but misled criticism now heaped on that department...
Even the concentrator in Romance Languages and Literatures would nevertheless profit from this sort of curricular innovation. Instead of becoming familiar solely with the background of his own special field within the Department he would gain a wide departmental outlook. Similarly the concentrator in other literatures such as English or Slavic might stand to acquire a valuable additional perspective on his own area of study...