Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Odhams lately built a new printing plant of Goss high-speed color gravure presses, as used by New York's Dally News and Crowell Publishing Co. Undoubted reason for last week's purchase was that Elias was planning something extra to print on these presses though he already prints some 100 periodicals in all fields-newspapers, medical papers, trade papers. His range of publications includes such variety as the Daily Herald, with a 2,000,000 circulation, Weekly Illustrated, Debrett (Britain's social register), The People, Passing Show, and John Bull. Editor-in-chief of every organ...
...easy for both the President's admirers and opponents to slip into platitudes about last night's Victory speech. The occasion begged him to pat the party and himself on the back, and the revived memory of November could hardly have failed to infect him with extra self-confidence. This is the best excuse for the messianic tone of his remarks whose very perfection of delivery aroused enthusiasm and revulsion. No one quarrels with his key argument--that democracy must do more for the underprivileged--but the details of the redeal give pause to many...
...last night President Conant reviewed the work of the past year and proposed to create a new method "of inoculating our student body with that educational virus which alone maintains its potency throughout life". He would do this by creating a non-departmental and non-credit, in a sense "extra-curricular", scheme of study in American History...
...latest report to the Board of Overseers-a statement which surveys the Tercentenary, the Conference of scholars held in connection with it, the University Professorships, the National Scholarships, and the Teacher's Oath, among many other vital matters-is a novel and pertinent suggestion, the organization of the extra-curricular study of American history. The purpose, foreshadowed in the Tercentenary address, is to "find the principle that is needed to unify our liberal arts tradition and mold it to suit our age", "the common denominator among educated men which would enable them to face the future" with real breadth...
...from the Group Theatre to House Dramatics, but from one point of view they are the paramount social activity in the House system. Unlike many extra-curricular interests they require relatively little time. A prominent official has said that such presentations number among the most valuable activities in the University, because of their tendency to bring House members into close contact with each other and because of their informality...