Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growth of "extracurricular activities" in many of our high schools has reached the point where the tail has swallowed the head. Sports, clubs, dances, teas, "pep" sessions, programs, youth movements and every conceivable kind of extracurricular activity . . . now [take] three-fourths of the time and energy of pupils and teachers . . . before they can even begin to think of study and teaching...
...Daily Princetonian suspended publication for the duration. Required by war to attend physical conditioning classes thrice weekly and generally to hurry up their educations, the "Prince's" 38 editorial department men and the eleven business side men had little time left for extracurricular journalism. Once before (in World War I) the lively, crusading "Prince" suspended, came back strong as ever...
...drive, Dinah's rise has been more of a trajectory than a career. In two years Miss Shore has become the No. 1 female blues singer. She queens the juke boxes within an inch of Bing Crosby ("than whom," says Dinah, "there is no whomer"). Her extracurricular "honors" have piled up like ticker tape. She was "Queen" of the Brooklyn Dodgers, "Queen" of Manhattan's famed Seventh Regiment, is "Sweetheart" of more Army camps than she can remember. At Manhattan's Butlers' Ball she was named "The Girl We Wish Would Come to Dinner...
...last report on the curtailment of extracurricular activities during the summer the four hours of exercise was approved as well as a sports program of games with enlisted...
Since the war effort is now justly the center of attention, extracurricular activities and tradition must suffer. Acceleration has cut into the spare time of many undergraduates and the intensification of the usual four year course leaves neither the time nor the inclination to get into the swing of things...