Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another problem is that the loss of freedom to ignore the academic would tend to undercut time consuming extra-curricular activities. But the frenetic character of the extracurricular at Harvard could well stand alteration...
...Dewey-eyed notion that instead of preparing a child for society, a school should be a miniature, make-believe re flection of society." Among the questions it urges parents to ask themselves: ¶ "Are club meetings, play rehearsals, band rehearsals, 'pep' meetings, and other extracurricular activities scheduled during regular class periods or outside of hours?" ¶ "Are classrooms equipped with TV sets so the whole class may watch the World Series? Don't laugh. This happens on specified grounds that the series is a part of the world we live in. So, it could be argued...
...temperament when he entered the University of Wisconsin in 1953, David Falk of Hampton, Va. might have been satisfied to stretch the $5,000 his father had given him to cover his next four years. But instead of making a budget, Falk decided to indulge in a bit of extracurricular tycoonery...
...Student Employment Office does not pride iself so much on being an important part of the University as it does on helping the individual student. Whether it is a matter of lightening a work load to help marks, rescheduling a job to allow time for extracurricular activities, or simply offering personal advice, the Office wants to be helpful. And with this kind of philosophy, it generally is.A student bartender, in heavy demand at this season, pours a drink at party...
...anew into soldiering. Serving nearly three years (1922-24) in Panama with a little-known man of fire, Brigadier General Fox Conner, Ike did such a stringent job as executive officer that many of his juniors have neither forgotten nor forgiven. In his spare hours he buried himself in extracurricular study of maps, charts and treatises of the great historical campaigns prescribed by his mentor Fox Conner. Night after night (Mamie went home to Denver to have another child-son John) the intense young major and the spark-eyed general debated and deliberated about command in wartime. "When...