Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That course time and extracurricular activity facilities be utilized to produce non-classroom activities for credit. For example, students might be given credit in a History of Art course for organizing an exhibition in the Art Gallery, or in a History of Music course for presenting a program of music with criticism over WYBC...
...Extracurricular Activities De-Emphasis...
...Extracurricular activities have hindered academic interest due to the concept of the successful Yale man. This is a concept where the good student is sub-ordinated to a perverted notion of the 'well-rounded' person. If there is to be a revival of academic interest at Yale, then there will have to be a de-emphasis in the whole sphere of extracurricular activities. The recent creation of the Ivy League is a significant step in preventing undue emphasis on athletics...
...remainder of the report lists suggestions for de-emphasizing extracurricular activities. These include limiting competitions to ten hours a week and establishing subject clubs for every major department or departmental group...
...Critics Circle is highly Pleased at the increased interest in theatrical activity at Harvard, and hopes that it will continue unabated in the future. The theatre may be, as Brooks Atkinson said recently, "the cruelest of the Professions"; but at the student level its worthwhileness as an extracurricular activity is unsurpassed, both in its many inherent benefits to those taking part and in its cultural and educational stimulus to those beholding it. Has not many a sage told us that all the World's a stage...