Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acknowledging God, says Dr. Buttrick, the educator cannot compromise with half measures; he cannot "be content to let the student add God as an extracurricular according to choice . . . the blasphemy which says of God: 'Season according to taste.' " What is needed leanings. In the U.S., educators became more & more absorbed with the equally radical ideas of Columbia's John Dewey. Even some of her own followers betrayed her: they transformed her doctrine of guided freedom into a doctrine of anarchy, and many educators turned away in disgust...
Back at Harvard, the extracurricular diet included phonograph records much to the glee of Briggs & Briggs, and the fad-happy Harvardmen followed this phase by kissing marathons. Debutante teas were raided, and one sophomore kissed 26 Wellesley girls in five minutes Cliffedwellers remained in Widener...
...Grad" interested me. As an Indiana University senior, I find that I am: 1) a social science major; 2) a Phi Beta Kappa; 3) in four extracurricular activities; and 4) working my way through school. Am I doomed to dismal failure...
...Bete does not leap ahead, does the campus politician? Surprisingly enough, the answer is no. The men who went in for four extracurricular activities for instance, are apt to average about $1,000 less than men who went in for no activities at all. And what about the students who worked their way through college? Here the survey shatters an old American illusion. Among the Old Grads of 40 whose parents supported them entirely, 42% make $7,500 or more. The score for the Horatio Alger group...
Last week a radio commentator announced the name of the Wake Forest alumnus: T. Lamar Caudle, former Assistant Attorney General, fired for questionable extracurricular activities just 28 days after receiving Harry's heady compliments...