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Word: extracurricular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office the course of study for him and the U. S. was well defined: Recovery and Reform. For 21 months he and the U. S. stuck close to this curriculum. Last week's announcement on war and profits marked the President's first major digression into the field of extracurricular activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War-Without-Profit | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

Last week Yale founded the first U. S. counterpart of the most famed extracurricular activity in the world-the Oxford Union. Like its model, the Yale Political Union will be a parliamentary debating society with members seated by parties, ruled by floor leaders. Predicted the Yale News: "Those hundreds of Yale men who revel in scheming, in 'packing,' in every crooked practice known to the county boss, will have a paradise especially made for them." Less cynical Yalemen, who know what a forcing ground for M. P.'s the Oxford Union has been, could find potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Packers' Paradise | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...mincing footsteps. But Miguel was born lame, so his only future was the Church. Juan, his father's favorite, was a physical coward. Pepe, the eldest, became a matador, but he lacked his father's touch. Pepe liked the life, however, learned all the dissolute extracurricular tricks. When his father arranged a marriage between him and Pilár, known to be a beauty, thought to be an heiress, Pepe quickly found she was too saintly for his taste. Left a penniless orphan by the death of her scheming grandmother, Pilár was jilted by Pepe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Toro! | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...presidential sceptre in the hands of a Hartley henchman named William Neal Winter, a practicing spiritualist with a "control" named Hugo. Asked Washingtonians: "Who really runs the University-Hartley or Hugo?" In 1932 Hartley (or Hugo), ostensibly for economy, smashed the Suzzalo system of Colleges, bore down on extracurricular activities, optional courses. That autumn Washington Alumnus Clarence Daniel Martin (Class of 1906) rode the Democratic landslide into the Governorship. President Spencer soon "asked" to be relieved of his job and given an English professorship. A new Board of Regents granted his first request, denied his second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hugo, Gobsie & Beartrap | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...Freshmen who have not handed in activity blanks for the Red Book must do so before Wednesday, April 18. Please leave a list of your extracurricular activities at 36 Matthews Hall immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN | 4/17/1934 | See Source »

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