Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their classes. That test reduced the number to 5,200, and college-board exams whittled it down further to 4,800. After that an eight-man board of educators took over. The board studied each applicant's academic record, his school's recommendation and his own extracurricular activities. After a week the board finally picked the winning...
Also active in extracurricular activities are Elms, who is in charge of several Dudley athletics, and Murphy, a member of the Catholic Club and the Dudley swimming team. Hines also belongs to the Catholic Club, while Lloyd is the Dudley senior proctor, and Newton is active on the Dudley Improvement Committee...
...page book proceeds by criticizing formal education at the University, several departments, the club system, and some of the other extracurricular activities. The writing was done by Leo Raditsa '56, john A. Pope, '56, Angus Fletcher 4G, and Peter Davis...
...addition to faculty and facilities, the University sought to extend its emphasis on quality through special events and extracurricular activities. The best known of these is the annual Creative Arts Festival, which has included the world premiere of the English adaptation of the "Threepenny Opera" and a major are exhibit, "Young America--Artists Under Forty...
There was no doubt that his seventh-and eighth-graders idolized him. They called him Paul, and "they followed him around," one mother reported, "as if he were a Pied Piper." At lunchtime so many flocked to his table that he decided to use the hour to give extracurricular Spanish lessons. In class he had a knack for arousing the interest of the most unlikely pupils. One day he gave a farm boy who had always hated poetry a piece of paper and said, "Now, imagine you are seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer...