Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acknowledging that it is attempting the impossible to crowd into four short years the requirements of professional training, the opportunities of a broad education and the leisure for extracurricular activities and good fellowship, the Faculty of Engineering has devised a plan of engineering training by which Harvard College may send such of its graduates as are interested in following engineering as a profession to the Graduate School of Engineering for instruction in professional subjects...
...appointed to interview every applicant and that the experience of tutors be carefully heeded, the report points the way to an efficient method of determining students' personal qualities. Furthermore by grouping the awards into classes and not announcing the small "aids", the University will be able to consider extracurricular activities and general all-round ability, unhampered by public criticism and interference. Thus a few deserving Group IV men should no longer be sacrificed for Group III "grinds...
...Rochester, N. Y. More than half are day students who leave their starkly handsome Genesee River campus at 4 p. m. like factory hands at the end of a day's shift. Alumni have groused about the absence of "college spirit," the lacklustre air of extracurricular activities, the football team which played seven games last season and lost six of them. On their part, Rochester teachers have complained that Rochester students tend to grind for marks, that a true national university should have in its college a diversified, representative student body...
...extent of his interest in outside activities, which detract from study time and yet are worthy. It is not a question of handing out football and hockey scholarships indiscriminately, but of recognizing qualities besides those of intellect--qualities which show themselves in a man's participation in various extracurricular activities. Well-rounded men, thoroughly capable of serving society, are what Harvard tries to produce; and that aim certainly will not be furthered by sending scholars forth to delve exclusively in ancient archives, when society needs men to lead it. Group IV men who have taken an active part in prominent...
...first step in the program was to provide undergraduate fellowships with maximu7m awards of $1,000 each annually to entering freshmen from the middle west. These fellows made such a brilliant record in the first year of the plan, both in studies and extracurricular activities, that the program was expanded to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...