Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition for Freshman football manager, long recognised as one of the outstanding and worthwhile extra-curricular activities for Freshmen, will begin on Wednesday, September 27, at 1.30 o'clock in the Varsity Club. This competition offers Freshmen not only an excellent way of meeting their classmates, as well as men in other classes, but affords them a chance to get acclimated to prevent them from being overwhelmed by the complete freedom of college life...
...this has been very negative. The study cards, "due or else"; the meetings in the Union, with their streams of advice and of traditional Harvard (professorial) humor; the coming attempts to draft Freshmen into various extra-curricular activities--these cannot be treated negatively by the men involved. Seriously speaking, then, the problem boils down--after the first, short-lived confusion--to this: how best can a balance be obtained between the academic and the social in a college career...
...such. It is good psychology, and it works. No planning is done by other students: there are no prescribed rites for Freshmen, no hazing. And none is done by the individual, as a general rule. Bull sessions make themselves; so do trips to Wellesley, football weekends, spring riots. Even extra-curricular activities of the more serious sort--writing for publications, playing for athletic teams, doing social service work, singing in the glee club--usually "just happen," and are the most fun that way. Until they get out of hand, they provide the balance necessary for a well-rounded education...
Sirs: Everyone is hearing a lot about building extra locks for the Panama Canal in case a lock was destroyed by air-attack from bombers [TIME, Aug. 28]. Could not the extra lock be put out of operation just as easily as the present one, if not the same day, the next day? Then, why not put a lid over the present locks and make them bombproof? This could be done by building a number of bascule leaves over the locks, making the leaves as near bombproof as possible, and adding further protection by having ten or twelve-foot standards...
...prescribed in Promoter Rose's circulars. At night everybody pitched tents and, if the opportunity presented itself, Mr. Rose went off to town. Midway across Wyoming Mr. Rose, finding himself short of funds, organized a little side-trip into Yellowstone Park. For this he collected $4,000 extra. In Portland, Ore., broke again, he asked families back home for a "loan" of $50. Some parents anted up, others said it was the next thing to kidnapping. To molify his charges, who were growing testy, Mr. Rose then trucked them down the coast to Hollywood, presented each girl with...