Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what Dean Leighton calls "Freshman tutorial," it is pertinent to examine if and how it can succeed. Placing Yardlings under a tutor for advanced work does not mean that they should do tutorial in the Sophomoric sense. With four courses and sometimes English A, and the necessary balancing of extracurricular activities with the academic diet, even bright Freshmen who find courses dull and repetitious, carry, nevertheless, a full program. Therefore the purpose of "tutorial" should be only to teach future concentrators the meaning and significance of tutorial. Opening their eyes to what the field officers, which of course will involve...
Apparently Mr. Chester's interest in extracurricular activities originated in 1930, when he suddenly invited two dozen leading foodmen to a get-acquainted dinner. And he found, as he had suspected, that few knew one another even by sight. From this group was drawn the Food Industries Advisory Board, which collaborated with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Food Code. All this activity put Mr. Chester in the spotlight; and in 1935 Mr. Chester got a telephone call from the N.A.M. president, asking him to serve as an N.A.M. director. Some of his General Foods directors had personal doubts...
Last week in Washington, the District Board of Public Welfare decided that, despite her able extracurricular activities, Dr. Smith was not giving the students of the N.T.S.G. the kind of discipline they deserved, asked her to resign. When Carrie Smith refused, the District Commissioners discharged her, replaced her with a male superintendent and a female jail matron as assistant...
Designed as an elementary, non-technical course, this group of lectures is being carried out in accordance with President Conant's recommendation for extracurricular opportunities for extracurricular opportunities for undergraduates to obtain valuable cultural knowledge...
...Voto, whose general topic will be "The American Historical Novel" was chosen by the committee on the extracurricular reading program in American History. Scheduled for December 6, 8, and 10, the three addresses will be open to all members of the University and to the general public...