Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis School Superintendent Philip Hickey announced that a "major learning program" for gifted students will begin in city high schools next fall. Guided by special teacher-counselors, selected students will be encouraged to take extra courses, work on study projects outside class, engage in extracurricular activities; moreover, their parents will be urged to send them through college or advanced technical training. Required for admittance to the program: an outstanding ability in a particular field, e.g.," languages, mathematics and an I.Q. at least 20 points above the class average...
...care to such affairs of state that Pérez Jiménez drew his countrymen's attention. Amid Cabinet meetings and the signing of decrees, they noted, the President worked in an astonishing schedule of extracurricular activities. He went to a garden party, an auto race and a pre-Mardi Gras fiesta, where he awarded the queen's prize. He tried out -a new rowboat and pitched the first ball of the Caribbean baseball tourney. He went to the touring Folies Bergère of Paris, whose nude cuties have been a scandalous success in Caracas...
...Harvard Summer School will offer more than 135 courses, as well as a new series of special conferences, lectures, and extracurricular activities when it opens July 5. The courses will cover 29 fields of study...
...laboratories, and museums will be open to everyone registering for the scission. Students will also be able to use all athletic facilities, including the swimming pool, tennis courts, and boat houses. An afternoon lecture series, Yard Punches, dances, and tours to the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood are among extracurricular activities scheduled...
...films, originally scheduled for Thursday, were shifted so they could be copied and sent to Harvard Clubs, Bradley W. Stark '56, chairman of the Student Council extracurricular activities committee, said last night. The showing will take about an hour...