Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luther Weigle was elected president of the Federal Council of Churches, which he shepherded through the first two years of the war. His biggest extracurricular job has been as chairman of the committee at work revising the Standard Version of the Bible. Since 1930, headquarters for this ambitious project by U.S. and British scholars have been at Yale. After his retirement, Chairman Weigle expects to devote his full time to the committee, which completed the New Testament in 1946 (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), and hopes to finish...
Take the Pledge. The board was unmoved either by tears or jeers. Henceforth, it voted, all high-school students will sign a pledge against joining a fraternity or sorority. If they refuse, they will still be able to attend classes, but they will be barred from all extracurricular activities. A few days later, the San Antonio Express denounced the ban as violating "the rights of privacy and assembly." Violation or not, San Antonio's school board was not alone last week. Other large Texas cities that have decreed similar bans: Dallas and Houston...
Students disliked him from the start. He was a mousy but stubborn man who regarded music, athletics and other extracurricular activities as worthless educational frills. When the school board chose him as superintendent and principal of the Twinsburg township school in northeastern Ohio, some parents protested. But Glen L. Powell, 51-the town's fourth superintendent in six years-was just the sort of man old-fashioned Twinsburgers on the school board had been looking...
Bill Pinkerton, another 1940 Nieman, revealed the extent of his infusion in College life in his report at the end of his year: "The extracurricular teaching by the faculty and students of Adams House has been important. I have developed a great deal of the 'old school tie' feeling about Adams House during these six months . . . from eating day after day with faculty and undergraduates, I have formed a new opinion of college professors and have gained new insights into 'the undergraduate mind...
Last spring Claire Ham '50 rounded up ten Annex students who considered target practice a good way to spend their extracurricular hours. Harvard's Ride Club granted the girls permission to use the shooting range in the Indoor Athletic Building one night a week, and even supplied them with an instructor, Henry Peltz...