Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former President of the HLU, suggests that perhaps students who were interested in hometown politics do not become equally engrossed in Cambridge and Massachusetts affairs. The new HLU President, Joseph E. Frank '56, gives another reason. "Students are more concerned with studies and social life than with extra-curricular activities and political organizations," he says...
...Yardling's managing editor blamed lack of interest on the fact that most would-be freshman journalists try out for the CRIMSON and that many of those interested at the beginning of the year drift off into other extra-curricular activities...
...James Bryant Conant '14, along with hundreds of other well-known alumni, have uncovered the news, written the editorials, photographed the local scene, and handled the abacus side of an operation which has long been one of the student's most profitable ways of spending his extra-curricular time...
...headmaster of one small Connecticut prep school is particularly aware of this problem. Formerly his school used to specialize in giving individual attention to students, offering a well-balanced program of academic work and extra-curricular activities. Now he finds this is impossible, if not undesirable. A few years ago, he had trouble filling the school; now he has too many applicants. With the resulting selection, he has found that the curriculum of the school has become progressively harder. The well-balanced program and the individual attention are vanishing. In short, the school is no longer any good...
First, the "specialized" student is not necessarily a narrow one. Along with Real Estate Appraising and Corporation Finance, admittedly "specialized" subjects, I have had courses in Philosophy, American and English History, Literature, Mathematics, Chemistry, Rhetoric, Opera Appreciation, Psychology, Drama, and Political Science. Furthermore, extra-curricular activities on an undergraduate level are an excellent broadening influence...