Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Model United Nations Assembly, sponsored by the UN Council, will inaugurate a drive to interest the University's 800 foreign students in extracurricular activities, tonight at 7 p.m. in the Geographical Lecture Room...
Last spring, two-thirds of the Freshman Class in a poll again claimed that they were unable to study in their rooms after 10 p.m. Because the afternoons and early evenings of many freshmen are taken by jobs, physical training, and extracurricular activities, the need for better study conditions is acutely obvious...
...never had a union; it never needed one. Besides high wages ($2.25 an hour for production employees, $10,000 and up for salesmen), IBM puts large chunks of its payroll (24% in 1954) into employee benefits such as free country clubs, bowling alleys, 52 extracurricular activities with 656 instructors, teaching everything from psychology to home repairs. And for IBM's stockholders, Watson has not missed a dividend in 39 years. A man who bought 100 shares of IBM stock in 1914 would have paid out $2,750 for his original stock, sp.ent another $3,614 to take advantage...
...report, over a year in preparation, has nearly completed the complex task of reducing to practical terms the general academic and extracurricular proposals made nearly two years ago by President Griswold. The flurry of controversy which followed the publication of his original "Plan A" and "Plan B" has now subsided...
...when the recommendations of the Study Committee are adopted by the University, they will not go into practice for at least a year. Among the basic problems the group has considered are: the relations of the faculty to College and University; the value of undergraduate extracurricular activities, which many faculty members feel are currently overemphasized; and the relations of undergraduate education to future professional work...