Word: extracurricula
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...specially arranged visits. The unusual dominance Harvard has held in most sports in the League for the past two years has led many observers to conclude that the University's approach to prospective athletes is more than nonchalant. Informed sources indicate that the Admissions committees is paying attention to extracurricula qualifications when college board scores are sub-standard, and athletics are apparently give a significant weight...
...Yale system uses marks ranging from three for excellent to zero for failure. It purports to discourage pure grinds, while increasing participation in extracurricula activities. The Law School here has the widely-used one to 100 grading basis...
...East to be polished. Last week, the West opened a musical finishing school of its own, at luxuriant, seaside Santa Barbara. For $30 a week board and up to $250 for eight weeks' tuition, 50 "advanced and specially gifted musicians" will be provided with extracurricula not offered by the East's famed but city-bound Juilliard, Eastman and Curtis: a private beach and mountain scenery, as well as a list of celebrated teachers, advisers and sponsors as long as an unwound French horn...
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