Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not suggest a fifth year in the high schools to prepare the college prospect. Nor would the student look with relish on the prospect of an extra year, an added mile-stone on the road to a degree. No faculty would admit of its practicality without an increase of its members or its salaries. And when America is spending $386,000,000 less this year on secondary education than it did in 1930, when 175,000 school children lack primary training in the three R's because their communities lack cash, such a course is patently impractical. The only...
...social system, taking the term in its widest sense, is frankly extra-curricular in its emphasis. The important thing to do is to heel some organization, to make yourself known, to make a fraternity and possibly, if that summit of campus ambition can be attained, a Senior Society. One is careful, particularly during his first two years, to speak only to the right people, and to avoid those of less prominent rank. Andover men, outnumbering those from any other school, place particular importance on this sort of thing and usually excel...
...this is largely true. The competitions at Yale do, however, provide a certain experience that may prove useful in business. For those who under the present set-up can get nothing more from college, even such business education will be some achievement. The most serious objection to the extra-curricular frenzy of New Haven is that men get themselves so involved in a hundred and one different things that if and when they do conceive an interest in the more intellectual aspects of education they have no time to follow their new inclinations...
...were popping into the editors' heads by the dozen. They dropped a few clues by signing their letters with the name of a famed Soviet comic character, "O. Bender," and with "William Tell, Trust Secretary." To soften the hardships of their Kazakstan expedition, they got special rates on extra food, phonographs, records, banjos and guitars. Then they asked the Scrap Iron Trust for 10,000 rubles for the expedition. The Trust passed them on to Constantine Maltsev, Assistant Commissar for Education. He, for one, did not bite, did not laugh. Instead he called the OGPU. One editor, arrested...
...joined United Shoe soon after his father and others formed it in 1899. Intrenched behind airtight patents and a leasing system, United Shoe was more than once under fire as a monopoly, lost a battle to the U. S. Government twelve years ago. But last quarter it declared an extra dividend...