Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which one removes his hat cannot compare to a living memorial--serve a limited purpose only. The case can be won with advancement of the positive thesis that the College student body unequivocally wants a Student Activities Center and that the College itself needs one for a cohesive extracurricular program. Primary impetus for substantiating this thesis must come at once from the organizations themselves. Furthermore, undergraduates whose fathers take part in Harvard Club activities back home could help immeasurably by letting Dad know how they feel: pressure from the grass roots is tried-and-true for prodding solons into action...
...edict appeared recently on one of the House bulletin boards declaring that the dining hall of that House would no longer be available, with certain exceptions, to College-wide extracurricular activities for purposes of ticket-selling, poll-taking, or any other form of solicitation. Investigation disclosed that the policy on this problem varied considerably from House to House, but that the House Masters are thinking of forming a joint policy that would apply in all dining halls. Should the Masters adopt the drastic Lowell House formula, every one of the College's threescore extracurricular organizations would be placed under...
...doubt there has been a lack of system and order under present rules, and, on some days, the entrance to the dining halls have resembled the eastern end of Memorial Hall on registration day. But the Masters should remember that as much as they might desire it, College extracurricular life is College-centered and not House-centered and that the dining hall is the only place in Harvard's heterogeneity where even a fair proportion of the undergraduates can be reached without prohibitive effort...
...make the pledges stick, all strikers were placed on probation for the rest of the year, seniors were barred from extracurricular activities. Although Principal Wood knew that the roots of trouble were still there, Fremont breathed somewhat easier...
...before adjourning for the week Congress settled one extracurricular issue when Representative Fred Bradley, from Michigan's smelt-fishing eleventh district, revived the prewar fish-gulping contest. The winner: Ohio's 250-lb. Representative Clarence Brown, who unseated Former Champion Jesse Wolcott of Michigan. His performance: a claimed total of 51 fried smelts (20-odd by newsmen's count...