Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reserve units stick together outside of the classroom. Many extracurricular activities are sponsored by the groups themselves to keep up an esprit de corps. Rifle matches, basketball games, mimeographed tabloids, dances, and movies help relieve the monotony of the courses...
Astronomy 1 students get an extracurricular thrill today when they see the movie, "Destination Moon," instead of their regular lab. Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics, said that the educational value of the feature length "warrants its regular use in elementary astronomy courses...
...Young's 1950 income, according to his own advance estimate, touched the neighborhood of $60,000. The work left him time for various extracurricular activities. He was advance man for Vice President Alben Barkley's cross-country political tour last fall, maintained daily long-distance contact with the President and National Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle. Through it all, Lauretta Young held on to her $4,700-a-year post as secretary to the President's secretary...
...busy with extracurricular affairs to be a good student. His big effort for three years was working on the Triangle Club shows. He never graduated. But he knew what he wanted to become. Said he to his fellow student Edmund Wilson: "I want to be one of the greatest writers who have ever lived...
...Harvard undergraduate. Here at the Graduate Center, in Harkness Commons, can be found a night club atmosphere with a dance floor surrounded by tables replete with beer and set-ups. Just below this upper level academic stork club can be found a more intimate and elegant dance for an extracurricular group with a social bent. Next door, amid the topography of Women Hall's Wheeler Room, a smoky and more Bacchanalian dance for a like minded organization fills the sunken garden with sounds evidencing that the "whole man" has arrived at the graduate school...