Word: curricularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responses varying from loud endorsement to emphatic rejection. Student study, a federally-supported research project, is working steadily to collect and analyze these differing opinions and values and to relate them to the student's behavior at Harvard--his grades, his personal relationships, his choice of courses and extra-curricular activities...
...elements of the "Traditional" system include an emphasis on achievement, future-time orientation, independence, and Puritan morality. The Study found that members of this system tend to major in Natural or Social Science, to get fairly uniform grades, and to participate in extra-curricular activities such as athletics, political organizations, religious groups, and service clubs. They frequently rise to extra-curricular offices as early as their sophomore year...
...Emergents," on the other hand, emphasize sociability, present-time orientation, conformity, and a relativistic moral attitude. They tend to major in Humanities or Social Science, to get a wide variety of grades, and to join activities like publications and fine arts groups. They are elected to extra-curricular office much less frequently than the "Traditionals...
...athlete at Harvard? He's not always the Group I or II student, nor is he the Group VI hanger-on. He may be one of the students in the 550-650 range in the SAT's who swung the admissions committee over to his side by favorable extra-curricular abilities, as do members of the Glee Club, band, Crimson, also. He may be a gentleman, and he may be socially ungraceful. "Harvard is a mixed bag," Bender noted quite keenly: "You can say almost anything, cite examples, and prove...
Several other PBH committees deal with educational problems in Cambridge. While a tutors committee assists poor students in local high schools, the special education program offers remedial reading courses at PBH itself. Harvard undergraduate teachers (HUT) help in classroom teaching, instruct seminars for gifted students, lead extra-curricular activities at Cambridge High and Latin School...