Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost all want a smattering of culture. So in addition to the social graces, the club offers French, homemaking and stenography. If a girl is particularly ambitious, she may-unless Miss Ellison rules to the contrary-take interior decorating, philosophy, dressmaking, mathematics, art, Latin. She will also get such extracurricular broadening as a visit to Fleet Street, a day at the Derby, a tour of a factory, watching the ceremony of Trooping the Color. She may also sell programs at charity bazaars, learn to care for her skin, study the art of conversation...
Thomas E. Everhart--Student Council, Extracurricular Activities Committee; Crimson Key, Treasurer; Kirkland House Committee; Harvard Band; House Basketball...
When Buck took over as Provost he had formulated a three-legged concept of Harvard education. "First there is concentration. It is to know something about something. Then there is distribution. Finally there is the concept of total life, brought out in the House system and extracurricular activities...
...McNiff's assertion that "the students are in class only 12 hours a week and have the rest (of the 75 hours the library is open) to study here" ignores the basic freshman needs to eat, exercise, and engage in extracurricular activities. Perhaps if the hours at which the library is available were more wisely set, better use would be made of them...
...veteran newsman himself (during World War II left as editor of the now defunct Tacoma Times), Reservist Voorhees kept a file on how the correspondents were covering the war. He shipped his notes home to his wife, who passed them on to a publisher. This week, for his extracurricular writing, Voorhees 1) had a brand-new book, Korean Tales (Simon & Schuster; $3), and 2) faced a charge that may bring court-martial. The charge: 1) breaking the rule that all writing by soldiers on active duty must be cleared by the Army, 2) disobeying a superior who had specifically ordered...