Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate establishment and maintenance of a variable number of scholarships and aids for members of the three upper classes, to be awarded on the basis of "scholarship, character, and good citizenship." The outstanding features of the awards are that they will be made upon the basis of extracurricular activity as well as academic accomplishment, and that Dean's List standing will not be an absolute prerequisite for them...
Many were the Pre-Raphaelitish extracurricular activities. They published a short-lived magazine, Germ. They were charter readers and enthusiasts over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Edward Fitz-Gerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property...
...fact that but twelve men were present at the trials for the Boston College Debate on Saturday is indicative that debating as a form of extracurricular endeavor has fallen into disrepute. No longer are intercollegiate debate contested with the vehemence which enlivened similar consists at the turn of the century...
Washington degrees will be reduced to three: in Law, Arts, Sciences. Extracurricular activities will be minimized, optional courses curtailed, the whole curriculum made more rigid, the student workday lengthened. Vocational education, except in Law, is to be gradually reduced in accordance with Governor Hartley's lack of sympathy for it. Reason given for the whole change is the need for economy. The university administration's overhead comes to $125,000 a year. President Spencer has refused to say how much the consolidation would reduce this. Said Matthew Hill, best-known Washington alumnus: "Oppressive taxes and the public...
...insinuates a more acrid wind that whispers:-Vanity, all is vanity. "Except the next woman," wise King Solomon, ensconced in his hive of wives, says solomonly. When he hears that Balkis, Queen of Sheba. is coming to study his incomparable wisdom, he looks forward to the first lesson with extracurricular zeal. Queen Balkis, for her part, is drumming the floor of her rocking camel-litter with her heels, impatient to arrive. The purpose of her pilgrimage is both political and personal. In the land of Sheba, dynastic laws require that rulership repose exclusively in the hands of virgins. Hitherto...