Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...June 14, shortly before Commencement. The men will be elected on the basis of scholastic achievement and promise. In determining the choice, scholastic grades alone will not be the complete ground for decision, but the difficulty of the courses taken will be given due consideration. Intellectual achievement in extra curriculum pursuits will be considered in the decisions although these activities are in no way regarded as making up for marked deficiencies in scholastic ratings. For the final election this spring, regard will be had for special graduation honors and distinctions...
...time when the fever for the regulation of undergraduate participation in extra-curriculum activities has enveloped both Yale and Princeton, it is well that the problem be discussed with respect to conditions at the University. On the surface it seems desirable that as many students as possible should hold offices, that the burden of the activities should not fall on a few shoulders, and that the entire time of a few office holders should not be given for the benefit of the remainder of the student body. But it is doubtful whether the artificial method in vogue at New Haven...
...substance of the resolution is as follows: "In order to divide the extra-curriculum offices in the university more widely among the undergraduates, and keep certain men from taking up too much of his work, the offices have been divided into two classes, A and B, and will hereafter be subject to certain rules...
...content with reforming the curriculum, they must needs reform the extra-curriculum activities at Yale. And this is mainly the work of the students themselves. But in such an atmosphere of reform it would hardly be reasonable to suppose that even the irresponsible undergraduate could escape the fever. It is worse than a revivalist camp meeting! The paramount idea in this reform is, of course, that provided men do not give as much time to outside activities, they will devote more time to their studies. By preventing a man from doing more than a certain amount of athletics, writing, managing...
...Haven. There is but one way to make the undergraduate pay more attention to his books. That is, to increase his desire to learn; stimulate his curiosity and his ambition and make him conscious of his mental inferiority. Why do undergraduates slave and work over their extra-curriculum activities? Because they make a direct appeal to ambition and pride. The thought that they may derive great good from these activities does not generally enter a student's head until long after he has graduated from college. Every undergraduate activity that is worth while has to be bought at the price...