Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questionnaire asks for detailed information on several aspects of a student's academic and extra-curricular career at Harvard. Seminar participants are given several specific questions about their seminar; the other students are asked why they did not apply to a freshman seminar...
More basic than the continual complaints about methods and operations, however, is a conflict between the ethics of the professional student business and the amateur extra-curricular organization. The HSA looms as the natural enemy of all undergraduate organizations dependent on volunteer manpower, for it adds monetary rewards to the incentives a non-profit organization can offer. Why should a student interested in business training work for the intangibles of experience and prestige alone, when he can get these and cash on the line as well by managing an HSA agency? And even if the student does not need financial...
Although slightly worried about the effect extra-curricular activities might have on studies, '66 takes a vastly different view from that of '65 at the same time last year. "Sure studies may suffer," said one Yardling, "but you have to do something more than grind." (He has joined three organizations and is thinking about more...
...they sign up? The answers are numerous, but most expressed the belief that PBH offers the most fruitful way to spend extra-curricular time, and they definitely want to spend the time. Others were impressed by the efficiency and low key nature of the PBH recruitment drive...
...Extra-curricular activities have been in steady decline over the past few years as a result of stiffening academic pressure and a general orientation towards graduate school on the part of the student body. This year's Yardlings seem to be bucking a trend that has overwhelmed everyone else...