Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurried in & out of No. 10 Downing Street and the Foreign Office. He and the other Russians stayed at Chequers [the Prime Minister's official country residence, not used much recently by Winston Churchill] and commuted to London daily by car. Molotov's few extracurricular engagements included a visit to the King with Eden, a fighter-station visit with Churchill while operations were in progress, and a trip around London with Maisky, which was ostensibly to see the blitz damage, but during which Molotov was most interested in seeing the people on the streets, who did not recognize...
...reasons for the decision to play no intercollegiate games are that the weather in Cambridge is expected to be too stifling for highly tense competition with other colleges and also that the concentrated curriculum of the summer school will not leave much room for extracurricular activities...
During the past year PBH sent out from its headquarters in the Yard approximately 300 volunteers to local organizations. Among its other activities the group sponsers Freshman social and extracurricular activities with a Radcliffe lea in the fall, a handbook distributed to the entering class, and a Freshman committee which each year investigates one first-year problem. The Class of 1945 was concerned with the question of Freshman orientation into the House system under the stress...
...plan contradictory of a standing Harvard tradition against undergraduate advisers, would attack the roots of the growing malady. An upperclassman would be chosen by the House Committee or the Dean's Office to advise a Freshman who has the same general interests in matters ranging from course selection to extracurricular activities. This system has been tried successfully in several smaller colleges in the country. The man-to-man Student Council plan of a decade ago which failed to accomplish its purpose could be made to work if a responsible central committee was set up in each House. The recent suggestion...
...Superintendent Kersey's most spectacular achievements have been extracurricular. When battle-bound soldiers began to arrive in Los Angeles after Pearl Harbor, Kersey promptly offered to billet them in his schoolhouses. He laid down cots in corridors and gymnasiums of his 30 high schools, called on his cooks and students to man the kitchens, bedded & fed thousands of soldiers, who decamped each morning to let classes go on. Of an evening Superintendent Kersey, persistent in his good works, would have his students entertain the soldiers with dances, operettas...