Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lampooned typical Radcliffe girl is a vanishing American. No longer is she is stringy-haired, scrawny thing with, as c. c. Cummings wrote, "her un eyes safely ensconced in thick glass." Jaded Harvard experts testify to her new good looks; a wide-eyed 'Cliffe administration lauds her broadening extra-curricular interests in the tersely-worded paragraphs of official reports...
Part of this barrier can be overcome by undergraduate support. Since the theatre is primarily a project designed to augment extra-curricular activity in the College, the student body should not remain aloof from the campaign. Undergraduates particularly interested in a theatre should form a committee to work on student fund drivers with Dean Bundy and John Mason Brown, leaders of the project...
Analyzing extra curricular activities at Yale where students have often been accused of working not for the activity as an end in itself, but more as a stepping stone to campus prestige, the report charges, "a majority of students put second things first." It refuses to state exactly what curbs it would place on activities and athletics, but it attacks men who spend more than 10 hours a week on outside work. Just exactly how extra curricular activities would be run is uncertain. Since the curriculum change applies primarily to the first two years, most undergraduates feel that activities would...
Both councils have ways of reaching the faculty which are not open to the other, Sheats said. Radcliffe can work through their Curricular Committee, which works with the faculty in investigating academic problems, and Harvard through its report system. Every year Council members make systematic reports on how to improve educational standards here...
...this? Terribly important, if we gave a very needy student, out of old habit a $600 scholarship when he really needs $800 it may be very hard for him indeed. It leads him perhaps, to work 25-30 hour's a weeks for wages, sacrificing academic work, extra-curricular activities, even his health in the desperate effort to cope with a financial problem we have carelessly set for him. Two hundred dollars extra means much to this...