Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Extracurricular Activity. In Madison, Wis., veteran-on-campus David Stimple brought his baby to class because his wife was sick, had note-taking trouble when baby insisted on 1) sitting on his notebook, 2) shouting down the professor...
Mostly they were a serious lot, impatient with spoon-fed schooling and such extracurricular attractions as hazing. Their grades averaged well above their fellow students. (At the University of Minnesota, only three of 6,000 ex-G.I.s were in scholastic trouble...
...Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are so overburdened with work that they rarely find time to read an extracurricular book.* Nevertheless, lawyers agree that lawyers should read something beyond Coke and Blackstone. Last week G.I.s who intend to become lawyers could get a helpful reading list of 90 books from two Harvard law professors, Zechariah Chafee Jr. and John M. Maguire. Some of the choices, such as ex-Dean Roscoe Pound's The Spirit of the Common Law, were strictly on the legal beam. Some others...
...mentioned among the extracurricular activities for the short summer term in last week's SERVICE NEWS, Phillips Brooks House, center of Harvard's social service activities, is starting back to its pre-war set-up and plans a re-activated summer schedule, according to John W. Ellison '44, who has returned to Harvard to reconvert...
...first six per cent of the last four glorious months has passed with most of the comrades spread far and wide. The boys now seem to be divided into two classes: those who have unlimited time for extracurricular work in Boston and those who can't leave home at night, i.e., the brave married...