Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well organized and determined to get it. This is the first plea to receive more than an abrupt "No!" In no sense a whim, or mere nagging at the University, it is based on the fact that at present Chemistry concentrators are barred from practically all extra-curricular activities by time limitations. It's time they got a break...
...proposed article in the Album which is to be written on the basis of the replies to the questionnaire," Dean Hanford continued, "should be especially helpful to officers of instruction and administration by throwing light on the value of different forms of extra-curricular activities, relation between students and Faculty, as well as the effectiveness of the Dean's office...
Spewed forth in various highways and byways during the average Harvard week are some thirty extra-curricular lectures and informal talks. Audiences attending them range from three to several hundred, while the subjects may be anything from Atom Smashing to the Future of the British Empire. Some of these lectures are scoteric and unpalatable, others vital and appealing; rarely do any of them obtain the hearing or the permanence to which they are entitled...
Hale continued, "One of the ways you can develop leadership and self-confidence is by going out for extra-curricular activities. Of course, you must not neglect your studies, but outside activities force you against hurdles, and it is doing the hard things that really makes...
...Freshmen cannot help being segregated from the rest of the University to some degree, for they live together in the Yard, eat together in the Union, and have their own athletic and extra-curricular activities. Above all, they are possessed of the common denominator of newness, a factor which adds tremendously to the cohesive power of the class. Such a unit naturally generates considerable centripetal force, and the only surprising thing is that there has been no such Freshman paper before, or at least within recent memory...