Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman Administration's figures on European needs, should get its own statistics. Herter led his 17 Congressmen and a pride of experts off on a two-month trip to Europe. He sternly forbade his crew to bring either wives or tuxedoes, and so strict were his rules against extracurricular nonsense that this sign appeared on the door of the Queen Mary's lecture room...
...with PBH's hymn-singing days far behind, such an element would be undesirable because Brooks House's function is now to offer opportunities for social service along secular lines. Heading this institution with sectarians might well frighten off undergraduates who prefer to eschew organized religion in their extracurricular activities. Further, a divinity school Secretary will probably have trouble convincing parochial settlements that Brooks House workers will keep their gospel social...
...awards were made on the basis of financial need and high academic and personal promise as shown by the applicant's records in class and extracurricular activities...
Called before the faculty committee, Professor Burgum declared that the evidence against him was irrelevant, denounced his accusers as professional witnesses. He also insisted that his colleagues had no business prying into his extracurricular activities. The committee disagreed. After 17 sessions and 984 pages of testimony, it made its report, and last week Professor Burgum was fired. Said Chancellor Henry T. Heald: "Refusal of a member of a faculty to answer questions put to him by his university in an effort to determine whether he is bound by commitments which violate his own academic freedom renders him unfit to continue...
...Extracurricular. In Ankara, the Turkish Ministry of National Education issued a ruling specifically prohibiting professors from: 1) marrying foreign women; 2) living with them...