Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientist, scholar, writer or artist who is awarded one, a Guggenheim Fellowship usually means a year of extracurricular leisure to work unhurriedly on a pet project. But last week the Guggenheim Foundation, awarding 82 fellowships for the coming year, found it necessary to warn its fellows that this is a year when leisure cannot be guaranteed; its awards are subject to interruption for calls to Government service. Example: Stanford University's Dr. Merrill Kelley Bennett, who went to Honolulu last summer as a Guggenheim fellow to study food, wound up as a statistician in the Food Control office, keeping...
...when even the Public Relations office has not found time for it. Any one who has tried to ascertain the relative chances in uncertain fields knows how fantastically difficult it is to find the right man, or to discover who is in charge. Far from being a part-time extracurricular activity for one Law Professor, this endless task can easily occupy the full energies of a large and hard-working committee...
...this. . . . Besides, the precocious child-actor is apt to be pretty much of a brat." Roger Hill, who was born there, inherited Todd School from his father in 1928. He believes that budding geniuses should be nurtured. Todd's curriculum is designed to prepare boys for college, but extracurricular activities are Hollywoodian: boys paint, act, design stage sets, make sound films, radio speeches...
Their collaboration, when Orson was 17, on Everybody's Shakespeare, a simple adaptation of Shakespeare's plays for high schools, has sold over 100,000 copies; their collaboration on Todd has greatly stepped up its extracurricular activities...
...their professors (2.52 v. 2.48); won more academic honors (Phi Beta Kappa, et al.); were more precise and systematic in their thinking, more resourceful in meeting practical problems; read more books; did more dancing; went to more concerts; took a keener interest in world affairs; went out for more extracurricular activities; were elected to more student offices. Clinching fact: graduates of the six most progressive schools had the best record, the biggest margin of superiority over their fellows...