Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hanover, there is little interest shown in extracurricular work. The Daily Dartmouth, oldest college newspaper in the nited States, publishes six times a week without any real student enthusiasm behind it. The paper has been unable to muster a staff even half the size of the Crimson's. Other undergraduate organizations--dramatic and language societies, glee club and band--struggle along with the support of the particularly interested few instead of flourishing as might be expected on so isolated a campus as Dartmouth...
...Student Council Constitution, adopted last year, provides that the runner-up moves automatically into a vacated post. In this instance, however, all runners-up were either ineligible or declined the appointment, listing increased academic pressure or other extracurricular activities as their reasons for turning down the post...
...current good behavior--are lurking without shame. For the student body representatives at the Chicago and Madison meetings have been almost exclusively leaders of student governments and editors of campus publications. If they have not met this description they have surely occupied a previous niche in other existent extracurricular activities. What confronia NSA now is a situation in which the great majority of its non-professional officers on the regional and campus levels have a first love outside the National Student Association. Perhaps the sincerity of their intentions cannot be questioned; they are at any rate not the devotees...
...more peppery issue: that of "student rights" to free expression and free enterprise in behalf of political belief (no matter how unpopular at the hour). The NSA uncompromisingly supported the right of such groups as AYD to exist with official recognition so long as they meet standard local extracurricular requirements. On the question of discrimination in professional training and quota systems in undergraduate schools the NSA decided upon a policy of bringing the light of publicity to bear upon the facts-when they can be winnowed out-and simply urging each campus to take whatever action is feasible. Here...
Among the papers in the brown envelope at registration, there generally appears one short white pasteboard card from PBH which asks all students to sign up for extracurricular philanthropic work. Office workers at PBH completed compilation of the cards yesterday and a drive is now on to sign up the men who registered interest in social service...