Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swellen undergraduate body, extracurricular activities should provide opportunities for individual expression that crowded classes cannot possibly afford. The incoming Freshman and the returned vet must look beyond the course catalogue to find the chance for easy exchange of views and interests that was part of the Harvard tradition. Though the need for an enthusiastic rebirth of activities is evident, the fact is that the great number of undergraduate special-interest clubs are still limping along, buoyed up by a small group of perennial stalwarts, and totally unable to tap the large store of potential participants...
Like any lively, ambitious cross-section of young Americans, TIME'S office boys & girls (average age: 20 years) burn plenty of extracurricular midnight oil. Some go to night school and college; a few work for their M.A. or Ph.D. degrees; office girls take our courses in typing, shorthand, etc. The results are varied and interesting. Not long ago one of our OBs left to become an instructor at Amherst College, another went to South America to be a professional wrestler, an OG blossomed into a Conover model, and an OB who had departed to become a monk returned because...
...opinion if you are the type who will be bored as the Glee Club sings on the steps of Dartmouth Hall, the kind of a gent who doesn't intend to play some part in the extracurricular activities, and a sap who will sit in the grandstand and talk to your girl friend while the boys dig their noses into the sod to bring glory to the Big Green, then you've picked the wrong college and should change your plans before it is too late."--September 13th issue of The Daily Dartmouth...
...where faculty-student relationships might prove difficult to those men unaccustomed or unwilling to "seek out the teacher," the situation is much more favorable in the University's extracurricular activities. During the fall, men in the Yard will be asked to join groups interested in everything from Chinese idols to Bulgarian chess. Individuality is an after-hours proposition, especially since classwork on the mass production level leaves little room for the personal slant. Mr. '50 will fiind in a College of 5500 men a least a handful who feel the same way about the Russians, or like back-handed Cribbage...
...twenty to thirty candidates in the competition will solve their immediate requirements for athletics. Physical effort and mental effort are about equally divided. Thus as a satisfactory extracurricular activity the managerial competition is unexcelled...