Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brown believes that students feel the stress of individual competition in both curricular and extra-curricular activities. The inevitable result, he suspects, is that more students are disappointed than are gratified. Hence they have turned to an activity which is both non-competitive and altruistic in character. Social progress in the last few years has taken much of the old stuff from campus political movements and hospital work gives students a new form of expression, he says...
Something approaching the importance which undergraduates attach to their studies and to extra-curricular activities is depicted in Weller's book, however. Brant, the young, troubled assistant professor going nowhere, and unable to "find" himself in the role of an educator, is pictured with a right amount of pity and disdain. Plainly, the great value of Not To Eat, Not For Love is that is treated the Harvard undergraduate not as an adolescent facing an adolescent's problems, but as a man facing problems involved with particular environment and situation. Although the novel's excesses are many...
Nearly 60 percent of the student body commutes and must therefore forego extra-curricular activities in favor of strap-hanging and traffic jamming...
...lectures, which are given in Long-fellow Hall for 11 weeks, are sponsored by the 'Cliffe Graduate School, and designed as an extra-curricular academic supplement for aspiring college instructors who have had no courses in education...
...Jonathan Fay diploma will be awarded to a senior who has high scholastic rank and who has made a significant extra-curricular contribution to the student life of the college...