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Word: extracurricular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Terry also describes another feature of the smaller school--the relative ease with which "a boy in a small school gets to be somebody" if he wants to. This is as true in studies as it is in extracurricular activities. If there is any intrinsic value in being first in one's class or captain of the football team or editor of the school paper, then a smaller school, offering less competition, makes it more likely that a boy will be able to "find himself" in some activity. Of course the quality of the finished product is rarely as high...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Middlesex: A Private Boarding School | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...extracurricular program Scarsdale is typical of most high schools. The General Organization or student council is the central extracurricular activity and provides a coordinating body for organizations and a playground for the machinations of school politicos. The limits of its power have usually remained, wisely untested, although a few years ago, when the General Organization voted to establish new regulations for parking, which limited teachers as well as pupils, the teachers complied, albeit with mixed reactions. A couple of dozen clubs and activities carry on regularly, including a yearbook, literary magazine, and biweekly paper, and enthusiastic students often belong...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Suburbia's Scarsdale High School Offers Top Academic Challenge | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...nightclub dates because his church frowns on drinking and dancing). He studied for a while at North Texas State College, signed on at Columbia in 1956 as a speech major, English minor. Among his senior year courses: chamber music, third year Greek, history and theory of music, movie production. Extracurricular activities: recording sessions, rehearsals for his limp but likable TV show, ukulele concerts for his wife-who is his own age-and four daughters. He averaged six hours of sleep a night while working at Columbia, studied Ibsen on transcontinental flights, still managed to look buttercup-fresh in two movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Clean-Cut Kid | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

TIME does well to display the extracurricular 8,000-word fizzle on the Harvard apron. Throwing stones at church windows is no more becoming with a Harvard accent than it is when done by the kid across the track. Bartley should be spanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

This is an extracurricular movement which has no Shakespeare or Mozart to carry it along on the road to professionalism. The student painter, like his counterpart, the writer, has a universe to face strictly on his own. All the inspiration and mentors in the world do not constitute a script or score and the challenge involved more than balances the opportunity. As is often the case with local literary attempts, the gap between aspiration and achievement is due, much of the time, to a basic inability to cope with the art's more fundamental and less romantic aspects, rather than...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Students | 4/30/1958 | See Source »

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