Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort of glorified dormitory. The Houses are dormitories in so far as they furnish shelter and food; they are glorified in so far as they do so resplendently. And they are not Houses in so far as they fail, with minor exceptions, to supply any form of extra-curricular intellectual activity...
Always ready for such extra-curricular activities as football games and Commencement exercises, the Station throws extra men into the breach whenever the need arises. During Churchill's visit in the summer of 1943, all the men not on duty were placed at strategic spots along the line of march, while plainclothesmen infiltrated throughout the Yard. Police strength was increased two-thirds during the last Yale game, but here attention was directed more to stray pocketbooks than missing goalposts. The Force considers gridiron shenanigans with little concern but any attempt at dynamiting Soldiers Field is regarded as carrying seasonal jocularity...
Meanwhile, the Council received a letter from the House Masters denying their request to situate undergraduate activities tables in the dining halls. The Masters felt that the dining halls should be "places of eating and good conversation," not commercial aids to extra-curricular activities...
...tute school" system began in 1886 after William Whiting "The Widow" Nolen '80 opened the first Manter Hall school and began to relieve students of their curricular worries. Starting slowly, the system mushroomed after the turn of the century, and highly organized cram courses flourished. By 1936 Wolff's, Parker-Cramer, and the establishment of E. Gordon Parker '96 had achieved leadership in their field and were busily stuffing College mailboxes with their literature. "Tute school" advertising stressed respectability and the scientific approach. A high-water mark of a sort was reached by Wolff's in a display ad that...
...instance, that students "are not very hopeful of the good times coming and tend to concentrate on digging individual foxholes in he shape of training for careers" stands opposed to the non-professionalized aims of the general education plan. This conflict and the issues of tuition and extra-curricular life are the biggest but by no means the only questions raised by Mr. Bender's "Report," which covers everything from the problems of the married veteran to those of the engineer who has forgotten his mathematics during the war. The new dean has cut out his work for himself...