Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unhealthy emphasis on grades" that Mr. Bender noted in his, "Report On the Veteran" he now feels is being given the needed treatment of a greater interest in extracurricular activities. Whether this is the trend in the right direction of getting the veterans out of their book-lined fox holes remains to be seen, but it indicates that the balanced individual Mr. Bender seeks may eventually emerge on the undergraduate scene. At any rate, the problems of the next few years have been clearly stated and Mr. Bender gives every indication of ability to cope with them successfully...
...comprehensive forms will request information on all phases of undergraduate life: personal data, athletics, extracurricular activities, social clubs, and war service...
Thaxter Swan '45, chairman of the Council's extracurricular activities committee, explained that many voters were confused both by the placing of the hockey rink and auditorium together on the ballot, and ignorance of the fact that the proposed activities center would include a theater. Write-in votes for a theater, as well as ballots marked for auditorium on which the hockey rink was crossed out, were added to the activities center total, Swan said...
Meanwhile undergraduate organizations have been unanimous in their endorsement of the proposed activities center. Swan's committee has sent out to all recognized extracurricular groups an inquiry on facilities now available and a call for complaints...
...blanket policy laid down will not bar extracurricular "peddlers" from setting up tables in vestibules outside the dining halls proper, or in common rooms. Not all Houses, however, have adequate or convenient space of this kind...