Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officials at the College welcomed the move as long overdue. The constitutions proposed a group equally divided between "permanent" and "representative" members. The former are chosen on a competitive basis; the latter represent the numerous extracurricular organs at the College...
...months passed, Starr seemed to thrive under his double routine, even though it meant working far into the night and often over a bewildering assortment of courses-Greek for Southwestern, business law for State, biology for Southwestern, mythology for State. Meanwhile, he happily pursued his extracurricular jobs. He never lost a pound, never appeared tired, and his work never fell off. Last week, Memphis State decided that college policy could no longer permit such goings-on, and Starr reluctantly resigned from the campus. But that did not mean that he intended to change his habits much...
...competitive bidder in the football market. Under a "Big Three" agreement Harvard, Yale and Princeton exchange information on all their varsity football players. Competitive bidding, in the form of scholarship offers, is frowned on. Each athlete must fill out a form showing the source of his finances; if any extracurricular subsidy crops up, the player is declared ineligible. Dick Kazmaier is a good example of how well that system works...
...Extracurricular activities and their role in a Harvard education will be probed in a forthcoming Council report by Harvey Robinson '52. He will use "sociological research" methods to find out "what the activity does for the individual." Employing the historical approach as well, he will check records to see "if activities still play the role they used...
...Extracurricular activities are expected of every student. First he "joins the communist youth organization, then the Society for Soviet-German friendship, and finally the Communist party. All students have to help collect signatures for the Stockholm Peace Appeal, and for the plebiscite against German rearmament...