Word: extra-curricular
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Students are asked to express a preference among the seven task forces, which deal with such topics as curriculum, extra-curricular activities and improving teaching. The chairman or an administrator associated with a force will interview some applicants...
Although music has played a major role in Krag's experience of Harvard, in the eyes of the University it has been an extra-curricular interest. When she entered Radcliffe as a freshman she was unsure what the nature of her commitment to music would be. "The main idea I was toying with was to be a music major and a pre-med." Her freshman year she took Music 51, the general theory course for music concentrators, from F. John Adams. It turned out to be "pretty much of a bomb." "Adams has a fantastic ear, he can hear anything...
...live up to its alleged ambitions as publicized in its massive PR campaign, and if the HDC board actually alters its policy in a way no past boards have managed to do, such mysteries may become irrelevant. Since theater attracts a larger number of participating undergraduates than any other extra-curricular activity, it is only logical that original work should play a primary role in Harvard-Radcliffe drama, rather than being relegated to a bottom drawer in the HDC office...
Despite the advent of "coordination," the arts at Harvard remained very compartmentalized, with little academic credit given for students' artistic work. And music, where performance traditionally is nearly all extra-curricular, was the only area of the arts where performances were consistently good. At the top of the long list of stars were Yo-Yo Ma '76, a phenomenal cellist, and Gerry Moshell, most notably as conductor of the Lowell House opera's "Ariadne Auf Nauxos," in his last year as a Harvard music tutor...
...Faculty then considered another non-controversial motion which asked President Bok to appoint a student-faculty Council on the Arts which will supervise extra-curricular, arts-related activities. After some insignificant debate, the Faculty voted approval, with but one, lone...