Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neighbor Beula Croker, protested loudly when she tried to raise money by subdividing her property and selling it in lots. In 1932 she worked hard for Roosevelt's election, for a time was county relief chairman, ran with no success for Congress. But all such activities were strictly extracurricular. For 15 years Mrs. Croker's life was spent almost entirely in court. She sued her agents, her attorneys, her creditors. She was sued by auctioneers for fees, by State governments for taxes, by her single-minded stepchildren for a share in the vanishing estate. Month ago she filed...
...Manhattan, serious cinema students could find more nourishing fodder in: 1) the extracurricular Film & Sprocket Society at the College of the City of New York; 2) the pioneer film appreciation course at New York University, now in its first year; 3) Columbia's new studies in "History, Aesthetic and Technique of the Motion Pictures." Most searching of these was Columbia's, listed in the University catalog as "Fine Arts em1-em2," conducted by Film Librarians Abbott & Barry with Paul Rotha, British documentarian, and invited technicians. Also most compact, it started off last week with 38 selected students...
...displays" given at the foot of the Washington Monument by Scouts of two regions (there are twelve in the U. S.). One afternoon there was a Sea Scout regatta, one evening a fireworks display. But more fascinating than spectacles, drills or speeches by oldsters about Scout ideals was the extracurricular activity in which all 25,000 assiduously engaged-swapping. To Washington they had brought a strange assortment of impedimenta: wampum, pine cones, stuffed birds, sharks teeth, shells, sponges, live hoot owls, pickled scorpions. Texans (dressed in chaps) brought a large consignment of live horned toads. West Virginians brought hunks...
Frankly a grind, Paul van Zeeland's extracurricular activities were limited to taking long walks in the country and pitching pennies at a crack in the sidewalk, but no roistering senior in a beer suit was ever more loyal to Old Nassau. Punctually every year Paul van Zeeland sends cards to every instructor under whom he studied. In the autumn of 1934 when Paul van Zeeland and a Yale friend attended an important banking conference, the latter scribbled the just-arrived score of a football game on a card and slipped it to the former-Yale 7; Princeton...
...keeps close watch on everything at Smith and as much as possible on the world outside. While Dr. Neilson is far from satisfied with education as it is, youngsters like Chicago's Hutchins who harbor elaborate and drastic schemes for reforming it, he considers "naÏve." Chief extracurricular activity in recent years has been his editorship of Webster's New International Dictionary. Currently Smith is worried over reports that President Neilson is going to resign. That he will not do so until he is ready is certain, since he is chairman of Smith's board...