Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campuses differ about as widely on extracurricular activities, although all six de-emphasize intercollegiate athletics. Kenyon, the only men's college of the six, invites girls by the busload for its dances, but half the student body at Baptist Denison (1,300) and Ohio Wesleyan (2,000) is female. Wooster has no national fraternities, but Kenyon has eight, and 90% of the student body at Denison belong to fraternities or sororities. At Wooster the Presbyterian Church controls the administration; at Oberlin (no church affiliation) the faculty is the big wheel on campus, even sets salaries (top for a full...
When Miss Brown assumed office at the Annex, the words "and of Student Affairs for the College" were added to her title to emphasize that her duties include the supervision of undergraduate extracurricular activities...
...board of education was ready with an integration plan one week after the Supreme Court handed down its decision. At first white high-school students boycotted classes and booed Negro newcomers, but these protests soon ended when school authorities sternly threatened to ban troublemakers from athletic teams and other extracurricular activities. Washington, D.C. schools are now fully integrated (but 20% of the Negro schoolchildren, living in Negro neighborhoods, go to all-Negro schools), and 58,500 Negroes attend classes along with white children in what one school official called a "miracle of social adjustment." The rapid march to total integration...
...most likely and most appropriate next step of merger would be in the area of undergraduate organizations. Extracurricular activities are certainly joint in "practice though not in theory" since many Radcliffe girls participate in Harvard organizations, although a University ruling prohibits them from the full membership rights of voting and holding office...
...Harvard version of excellence was a bit peculiar. It was competitive. Nothing was excellent if it could be excelled. The measure of excellence was never Rumplestiltskin, but rather a metaphysical absolute variously identified as "Veritas", (in academic work), "professional competence" (in extracurricular activities), and "intelligence" (in social situations...