Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important distinctions are made between Wharton and the various other undergraduates, however, and the line between them is noted mostly from above. Indeed, little distinction could be expected to develop, because such would give unaccustomed recognition to the academic side of college life. Extra-curricular activities and social life are much more interesting...
...Council not only mirrors student opinion and works closely with the Administration, but, most important, it approves the budgets and distributes funds for the many undergraduate organizations. Each student contributes a stipulated amount to a Men's Contingency Fund, from which the Council doles out money to extra-curricular activities. Although organizations can raise money on their own, the groups are in fact dependent on the Council for their existence...
Harvard College grew strong with the growing University. It has experienced steady improvement for a hundred years. It was especially advanced by President Lowell's devotion to curricular change and multiform development, above all by his establishment of the House system. No one in all Harvard's history cared more for the College than he. And, after him, President Conant set himself no less steadfastly to strengthen this part of the University. Mr. Conant's new scholarship and fellowship programs advanced the claim of the College to be a truly national institution attracting more and more of the exceptionally able...
Doubtless the ACLU has cases to support this thesis, but college administrators may also assert that they have a duty to know, to some extent at least, how students are spending their time and which students are taking a greater interest in extra-curricular activities. Here the argument must lie, because the report's point of view is only stated, not thoroughly explained...
...report also urges that secondary school administrators allow more freedom in the conduct of extra-curricular activities...