Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Blanding tries to keep unnatural pressure away from scholarship girls, giving great weight to extra-curricular activity and accounting for freshman "floundering...
Vassar girls pursue intellectual culture and development in a relatively lonely corner of the world, and this geographic fact has had considerable influence upon the traditional life of the college. The academic side dominates the student's relationship to Vassar, and the highly organized extra-curricular activities consume much of the rest of her time during the week. But on weekends, the blue jeans, sneakers, dirty shirts, and text-books disappear, and so do most of the students...
Four out of five Vassar girls belong to some extra-curricular activity. Art, dramatics, athletics, politics, and journalism are well represented; but Vassar, more than any other college, reflects the modern trend toward bureaucracy. The massive and intricate College Government Association (described in an article on page four), is the latest development in a history of over 75 years of some form of student government. C.G.A. includes a senate, legislative assembly, supreme court, and subordinate bodies extending as deep into undergraduate life as a police department and a traffic court, which handles bicycle violations...
Other remarkable features of extra-curricular life are the existence of two weekly news-papers and an elaborate "census" system (described on page three) which rates and regulates membership and office holding in the undergraduate organizations...
...because of "community interest," these on her hands, curiosity, or immense vitality, nearly every Smith girl is interested in some sort of extra-curricular activity...