Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject fully and to the student who harbors ambitions to paint or sculpt himself, to teach fine arts without imparting some understanding of the creative process. If an understanding of creativity, its drives and disciplines, are fundamental to the artist, it is inconceivable to assume that they are "extracurricular" to the art student...
Members of the department had different opinions on how the University could give students more opportunity for creative work. Coolidge said that instead of offering more courses, the University might set up an extracurricular center in the visual arts patterned upon the Glee Club. Another possibility would be a program connected with the Houses like the one Dunster has started, he suggested...
Another plan which the scholarship committee will consider is a short-term loan fund for extracurricular activities. This was suggested by Carl S. Sloane '58 to avoid ending the meeting on "a farcical note" and to remedy the fact that "we've done nothing to aid the student body since February...
...Strange One (Horizon; Columbia) is the film version of End As a Man, a study of extracurricular activities at a Southern military academy, published in 1947 by Novelist Calder Willingham (who attended The Citadel in 1940). The movie may stimulate some furious second-thinking in many readers who (like James T. Farrell) thought that Willingham had made "a permanent contribution to American literature." With most of its sensationally fleshy parts removed, the bare-bones plot stands revealed as no more-and no less-than a cleverly constructed thriller...
...Tutorial Bibliography is a more complicated problem. It has made tutorial into a kind of fifth course in which students prepare for Generals by reading a section from the bibliography not covered in a catalogue course. Moreover, the student soon learns that all his extracurricular reading should come from the departmental list, and that if it does not he will suffer on General Examinations...