Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will also look into the effect extracurricular activities have on underclass students' academic records. During the past two years, freshmen have been allowed to take part in extra-curricular activities at all times. Previously, they were not permitted to participate until November. Fall sports were not under the old rule...
...then a correspondent for the United Press. In front of the North China Daily News Building on the Bund I ran into one of TIME's editors, who was on a trip through China. In the course of our chat he became interested in an extracurricular activity of mine, which was managing the Shanghai Amateur Baseball Club, the oldest U.S. organization in Shanghai. The club was originally formed in 1865, and it frequently played the Presbyterian Mission at Sungkiang, an all-Chinese team captained by onetime Premier Tang Shao-yi. Early competition was also found in the crews...
...rates will enable students to earn the same amounts as previously, while working several hours less per week, according to Graham R. Taylor '49, director of the Office of Student Employment. Taylor hopes many students will be left more time for extracurricular activities and studies...
...report, issued over the weekend, decried restrictions "in the social and extracurricular phase of undergraduate life." It calls for extension of 7 p.m. parietal rules and eased automobile regulations. It also attacked the disciplinary system which "attempts to make drastic examples out of a few students...
Realizing the boredom attendant in living in the tiny community, the college has attempted to provide more interest for the students directly on the campus, through extracurricular activities. But it is a difficult task to keep these going. The newspaper disbands almost yearly. Small groups of students have organized clubs in a few of the more important departments to present various programs for weekends and weekday nights. It is noteworthy that students concentrating in all undergraduate fields participate in those meetings...