Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student Council Extra-Curricular Affairs Committee last night recommended that the University "take immediate steps" toward the establishment of a Harvard-Radcliffe Student Affairs Center...
Historically speaking, the Council maintained that it had two important functions. First, it represented student opinion to the faculty. Secondly, it regulated extra-curricular activities. In recent years, however, advocation of the latter has become both nonsensical and foolish in that all undergraduate activities pride themselves upon their autonomy and they definitely would not submit themselves to supervision by the Council. The former is a more interesting study, however. Earlier, Student Councils did issue interesting and valuable reports which did reflect student opinion on various facets of university life, but the Student Council created a permanent committee, the SCCEP, which...
...three admissions requirements are: A diploma from "an accredited high school," a recommendation from that school, and score no lower than 400 in the SAT's. Walden C. Irish, Admissions Counselor, remarked that students in the 400's are borderline cases and must have strong extra-curricular assets in order to be admitted. Foreign students, he said, must meet higher requirements--and usually do--adding that "Our athletic coaches cannot admit any students or give any financial aid. They make recommendations. We decide who is to be admitted and who is to be given financial...
Almost three-quarters of "Invitation to Harvard" concerns athletics; comparatively little of the 20-minute film shows glimpses of the best lectures, the libraries, extra curricular activity, tutorial, or House life. In addition, the ten-year-old movie has a message from "President Conant" and misses scenes of Loeb, Quincy, Leverett, and other additions of the last decade. The sports emphasis is a left-over from the fifties when the University apparently had to overcome a "pink, bookworm" image...
Undeniably, the initial act of abolishing spring practice in 1952, later entered in the formal Ivy League code of 1954, was a move of solidarity to provide more academic and extra-curricular freedom rather than to check football professionalism...