Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admitting his gratitude "that I know there is a Harvard that belongs to us and our America," the extracurricular American History Counselor for next year still finds it depressing to return to Cambridge and see the new Houses. "So much of Harvard symbolizes what I do not like that it is hard for me to feel strong affection...
...experimentation, and as a result, he has little time for those cultural and broadening pursuits which are among the chief privileges of a college education. In many cases, even the bare minimum amount of exercise necessary to keep him in decent physical shape is denied him, while extracurricular activities are a luxury. Certainly some reduction in laboratory hours is indicated if he is expected to become the well-rounded and broadly cultured man which it is Harvard's and President Conant's aim to produce...
...against unemployment, the Works Progress Administration has been the delight of cartoonists and paragraphers. The ubiquitous WPA signs, signifying men & women at work building bridges, painting murals, reciting Bernard Shaw or planting oysters-all under the direction of Washington- seemed to the rugged individualists to be a vaguely comic extracurricular activity of the Federal Government...
...officers had voted themselves big bonuses and paid much too much in taxes. But apparently Mr. Marien himself had not acted for profit. To Interstate Hosiery officials he could not "account for his impulses.'' Meanwhile, impulsive Mr. Marien had been charged with what seemed to be an extracurricular forgery for $141.75. New York Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall, who was shaking his head over the case, began to wonder if it were quite so clear an example of frustration as the newspapers thought. Interstate Hosiery stock had gone up from $7 to $42.50 a share while...
...nearly two years the question of how subways in general could be improved artistically has been studied by a group of Manhattan artists. Some WPA and some not, but all members of the United American Artists, they believed that this extracurricular activity in the public weal would be their best argument for a Federal Bureau of Fine Arts. Last May the Union's Public Use of Arts Committee started preparing an exhibition of murals and sculpture for subways which last week opened at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Said the Museum's catalogue...