Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being consumed by flames. The gilded unemployed were pouring from their crested mansions while their professional colleagues moved en masse across from their habitual hang-out on the opposite corner. The Vagabond squirmed with delight as a Harvard man struck a match in the friendliest manner and offered his extracurricular acquaintance a light. The act was positively democratic and bristling with bolshevist implications...
...House Plan has centered extracurricular and social activities in the Houses and has raised the expenses of living in the College. In order to solve the problem, then, it is necessary to determine the reasons why these students are not living in the seven units and to find out how much in the way of participation in extra-curricular activities are missing...
...Rules Committee. They awarded a prize to a member who, at a banquet, told a grisly story about going to bed with a corpse. Coach Lou Little of Columbia told them that college football players spent 109 hours on play and practice as compared with in hours of extracurricular effort by debaters, 122 by lacrosse players, 132 by dramatic club members, 186 by oarsmen and 241 by college journalists. For president, the Coaches Association chose Dr. Marvin Allen ("Mai") Stevens of Yale to succeed J. F. ("Chick") Meehan who recently resigned from N. Y. U. to coach at Manhattan College...
Among the minor annoyances of the University's athletic routine is the early closing time of the Indoor Athletic Building. There are many men who are prevented by laboratory work or extracurricular activities from beginning their exercise before half past five. Arriving at the New Gymnasium, these men find that they cannot remain in the pool after quarter to six. If they have hopes of rearranging their schedules so as to swim earlier, these hopes are defeated, for the pool is reserved for the swimming team every afternoon from three until half past four. At six, exercise stops everywhere...
...fine boy in preparatory school. But "this modern university system is all wrong. It makes its students selfish and ungrateful." Father Harrington agreed that punishment was just. But could Northwestern not have devised something "which would not have interfered with his career?" Such as to bar Son Harrington from extracurricular activities, make him take more courses? Sadly said Father Harrington: "If he is a hobo now, the university has made...