Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called for a middle road which recognized the value of athletics and yet did not neglect other educational values. Buck emphasized in his speech that education did not consist essentially of cramming knowledge into students, and that the real educational purpose of creating character could be assisted by extracurricular as well as curricular activities...
...Associated Harvard Clubs in June was substantial progress possible. At that time the backers of the various proposals for was memorials presented their cases Representing the Council, Thomas L. P. O'Donnell had little trouble demonstrating the value of an Activities Center. In a University which boasted seventy-four extracurricular groups in 1941, only three of which had their own buildings and most of which were badly in need of additional space and equipment, the need of an Activities Center was obvious. In addition, the lack of a decent post-antiquity theatre for plays, concerts, forums, etc. had been grumbled...
While it is traditional Faculty policy to launch new students into the circle of undergraduate captivities through Compulsory Athletics, the present P. T. system works at cross purposes to that end. Freshmen dividing their time between studies and a lengthy wait for athletic credits have little time left for extracurricular interests. Our socially minded Athletic Department has the novel experience of seeing its left hand erase what its right hand has written...
...special events, to prevent time conflicts and present to the students a single source of information on club events. Most important, a group of this type would be alert to new suggestions for activities, sensitive to all possibilities of publicizing club affairs, concerned with the necessity of expanding the extracurricular program...
...Boosting" of the glad-hand variety and over-extended faculty control are evils that may lurk in the fringe of any effort to stimulate extracurricular activity. But the ever-present sensitivity of the established organizations would guard against encroachment from above and, as for the over-enthusiastic boosters--they would disappear with the first frosts of local indifference. A strengthened group of special-interest activities would remain, supported by a larger portion of the College and interested faculty...