Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...susceptible freshmen to the grand sweep of Knowledge--through mammoth survey courses such as Civilization I. Educators, or the best of them, know of the disease, and are attacking it; but quietly, perhaps unconsciously, students are themselves making the greatest inroads. They are doing so through increased participation in extracurricular activities...
Aviator Earhart was still relatively unskilled in flying when she became famous as an airwoman. Commercial flights and publicity ventures gave her experience, helped pay for the longer hops she took for the fun of it. She never quite broke even, though her extracurricular activities ranged from being a peripatetic faculty member of Purdue, to designing women's shirts with tails ample enough to let their wearers stand decently on their heads. A feminist (her husband "cannot remember introducing her even once as Mrs. Putnam") she was still feminine (her thought going through a thunderstorm over the Gulf...
...teeth in permanent caps, her nubile curves seductively displayed. Although her most ambitious job of work since then has been an unimpressive performance in an unimpressive picture called Indianapolis Speedway, Warners' smart young West Coast publicity chief, Bob Taplinger, has made her one of movieland's brightest extracurricular celebrities...
...year and laid plans for its seventh. Orthodox educators were surprised at its persistence. Black Mountain resembles no other college in the U. S. It requires no attendance at classes, grants no degrees, has no president, no fraternities, no football team. Thus unencumbered by the machinery of curricular and extracurricular activities, it devotes itself to art, music, dramatics, philosophy and what it calls "community living." Last week, the better to house "community living," the college announced plans for new buildings such as no U. S. campus has seen...
...college, what Glenn learns in extracurricular sex and socialism is not the stock stuff of left-wing propaganda novels. Seduced by a friend's Communist wife, who says he represents "the confused ignorant masses of America," he is brought into the Party only indirectly-the Revolution offers an alternative to being driven crazy...