Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the latest devices in statistical work an in mechanical tabulations must find employment in the course of the investigation. First foray might involve looking at University records of the student's standards at entrance, his scholastic aptitude rating, and his academic and extracurricular records...
Next would follow a consideration of a variety of associations, for example, "how is entrance standing associated with academic standing in the different departments, and extracurricular activities associated with academic performance...
...study. Stephan declares, it will probably prove easy to forget the large goal. That objective was set forth in the report: "to examine as critically and systematically as possible through the use of modern techniques all aspects of residential University life, including both instructional methods and programs and extracurricular activities, for their effect on the student's intellectual, moral and physical development...
When the undergraduate scrambles in the outside world of people competing for real spoils the reward of extracurricular time spent in settlement houses can hardly lie in sentimental memories. The enduring value will consist in that measure of social perspective--of understanding the underdog--that must accompany intellectual preparations for democratic living. It is during College, declares James Ford '05, former associate professor of Sociology, that "broad human contacts" must enter a man's development. "Postponement until graduation," he wrote in 1940, "is unsafe, for sympathy so long held in check may become atrophied. A man's character...
Harvard Youth for Democracy enters the nightly extracurricular lecture field on Wednesday night when its magazine, The New Student, presents the first of a series of ten lectures in a Symposium on Contemporary American Culture. According to an announcement last night by Edward A. Siegler '48, director of the series, playwright James Gow will open the symposium with a program on the drama in Emerson...