Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...COLLEGE in which most other extracurricular organizations will be dead, the redbrick building on the one-way cow-path, 14 Plympton Street, will continue to be a focus of undergraduate life. The punch-bowl will seldom over-run this summer, but typewriters will still pound on yellow copy-paper the news of the University...
...loser: the Kaiser until World War I, Harding until the oil scandals, the early Mussolini who made the trains run on time. Despite his good words for academic freedom, students and teachers often denounced his conservative leanings. Since World War II began, Dr. Butler has been comparatively silent on extracurricular matters. In the house at 60 Morningside Drive which Columbia has built around him, and around which he has built Columbia, Dr. Butler made no public comment about his resignation, effective October i. But he once told admirers that, if they opened him, they would find "Columbia" written...
Reassigned to Washington as Minister-Counselor, he soon picked up important extracurricular jobs. He was named chairman of the United Nations Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture, the potent supplies committee of UNRRA. and last summer was chairman of UNRRA's Montreal meeting. His big job now will be to press upon the U.S. Canada's claims for an effective voice in any world-security organization (see above...
...insurance because the new tax law made it liable to estate taxes along with his other assets.) He has not in recent years collected his full salary ($75,000), and does not expect to miss it much now. He has always docked himself for the time he spent on extracurricular business, notably two other interests inherited from his father: famed Catalina Island, off the coast of California, and the Chicago Cubs (who finished fifth in the National League last year...
...Extracurricular Activities. "After half a century on this earth (which is all I intend to admit to . . .)," Louella Parsons has accomplished and earned as much as ten ordinary women. Besides her salary from Hearst, an estimated $750-$1,000 a week, she has been in a position to do nicely on the side, with Hearst getting one-third of the take. Radio used to bring her as high as $2,500 a week until the Screen Actors' Guild, thanks to James Cagney, made it impossible for stars to appear on Louella's programs with no reward other than...