Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the hazing season last week at Columbia University, when kidnaping freshmen becomes a popular extracurricular activity, Freshman H. Gordon Butler, 20, of East Providence, R.I., unwittingly set something of a record. One afternoon, a group of sophomores, including Peter Douglas, 19-year-old son of Actor Melvyn Douglas and ex-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, dragged Butler to a car and drove him down to the Douglas apartment on Park Avenue. They bound his hands, taped his mouth, wrapped his face and head with bandages, and whisked him off to La Guardia airport. There they plunked him on a plane...
Answering an article by Lynn White, Jr. in the October Harper's Magazine, Miss White stated that girls were less likely to express themselves freely when there were boys in classes, and that they usually had only a subordinate part in coed extracurricular activities...
...Eleanor] filed 150 pages of affidavits charging me with everything from smuggling Chinamen to raising marijuana on my window sill that I decided to take a look at the pretty pot that was calling the kettle black ... I refuse to get bitter about [Eleanor], and I never suspected any extracurricular activity on the part of my wife. But her behavior was enough to make a strong man weep. My marriage ended seven years ago." (He was locked out of their house in October.) Since then, he said, "she has been my wife in name only." Billy recalled that he offered...
...exam week, and U.C.L.A. students were concerned with such practical problems as marks and last-minute cramming. But a group of them found time to attend an extracurricular lecture at the religious-conference building. There the Rev. James H. Robinson, a Presbyterian minister, told them about his recent visit to India (TIME, April 28). As a Negro, he had been able to visit places that white Americans seldom see, and he was convinced that the best way to solve India's misunderstandings about the U.S. was through personal meetings and discussion...
...never knows who may to scrutinize his post. It's may be a prospective employer, in which case the records to college extracurricular affiliations kept in University Hall are a boon. Or it might be the local investigation committee. Disputes over the membership list requirement usually center on this somewhat hypothetical, but nonetheless menacing, possibility, but recently the Council has attacked it on both counts...