Word: curricularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a meeting of the P.B.H. Freshman Committee last night, Chairman Andrew H. Wright announced that for their annual investigation, the Yardlings had picked the two-fold topic of the orientation of next year's class in the Houses, and the general status of extra-curricular activities during...
...popularization of this training that could open up a smooth road to advancement gave rise to thousands of new colleges at the ends of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. By 1930, these factories of liberal teaching were turning more than 1,100,000 men off the curricular assembly lines, and 1,000,000 more from the mushroomed vocational training programs combined with them to glut the job market. With more college men and fewer jobs, the liberal arts enrollment that had jumped 468 per cent since 1900 had come to a virtual stand-still...
Peter Dammann '42, representing the CRIMSON, said that he was opposed to a permanently accelerated program, because it meant the end of many extra curricular activities. "I have got more out of them than out of Widener Library," he stated. Such organizations can survive the war only if the students are sufficiently interested in them, he maintained, pointing out that University officials would be too busy to give any attention to their welfare...
Full credit will be given for four hours of participation in rigorous sports such as football and lacrosse, but calisthenics will be added to the schedules of other athletics. Credit will be given for regular forms of exercise, such as R.O.T.C. drills and inter-House athletics, but extra-curricular activities, which are expected to be hard-hit by the program, will be no excuse...
Students can be excused only by Dean Hanford, who will have charge of curricular conflicts, from problems such as having more than two labs a week. Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, will take care of medical cases that may arise...