Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student, is an articulate example of the University attitude. "In all the voluntary withdrawals the man feels he is not utilizing his opportunities as he should. He wants to study and can't. Or if he isn't a student type, he feels he should be having a worthwhile extracurricular life and isn't. Predominant in all these people is the awareness that one can have only four years at Harvard. They often leave at mid-term, because they think if they stay for finals, they'll lost the term completely...
...settled over the country. Once, said he, "we wanted every child to be happy and contented and to have a feeling of success. We thought this could best be assured by de-emphasizing standards, competition and grades, by broadening the curriculum and by eliminating the distinction between curricular and extracurricular activities . . . Today the mood of the people has changed. There is a new stress on values and standards, on hard work and more firm adult discipline . . . There is stress on the re-establishment of priorities in education...
...acre farm near Belsano, Pa., where Black Lick Creek runs down the western slope of the Alleghenies. Young Willie did his share of farm chores, took the bus to Black Lick Township school, found time to play the drum in the school band, and got into enough extracurricular trouble to be a regular visitor at the principal's office. "I didn't like girls much then," says he, almost with surprise...
...between them. But the crash of his marriage, disclosed Pilot Steeves in this month's Redbook magazine, had nothing to do with the crash of his plane. Prior to his sojourn in the mountains, by his own admission, he had been flying too high too long with an extracurricular cutie from San Francisco...
...extent of Roosevelt's extracurricular interests can be seen in a list of his activities. He belonged to the Fly Club, the Hasty Pudding, the Institute of 1770, the Dickey, the Signet Society, the Social Service Society, the Political Club, the Yacht Club, the Glee Club, the Memorial Society, the St. Paul's Society, and the Harvard CRIMSON...