Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis of answers returned by two-thirds of foreign undergraduates, the Committee on Foreign Students felt that foreign students "as a group" had good academic and extra-curricular records...
Samuel A. Olevson '54, past president and now membership chairman of the UN Council, said that he had an eight or nine page brief to present to Watson. This brief, he claimed, would inform the dean of the Council's value to college extra-curricular activities. Cutting off the livelihood of the group would "eventually cause Harvard University to be the loser. Essentially, there is no difference between presenting football games commercially and showing films for a profit...
...there certainly are hundreds going into government, law, and economics who could use such intensive training. There is not even one half-course in radio; yet Harvard and Radcliffe surely have students interested in radio vocations. There is no faculty member available to coach debate and other extra-curricular speech activities; yet Harvard has debate councils and there are probably students interested in other types of speech contests. In fact, there isn't even a field of concentration in speech, even though Harvard could attract gifted students who are interested in a speech major. A need exists for expansion...
...survey suggested three solutions to curricular problems: extensive course consolidation and elimination, better utilization of the pre-legal years, and an additional fourth year. The University, according to Fuller, advocates and has already put into effect the first suggestion...
...Extra-curricular cultural activities have always been prominent at Leverett. A volunteer staff editors the chauvinistic "Leverett Laurels," while a Forum Committee struggles for attention on a higher plane by annually arranging a series of talks by assorted University experts...