Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chiefly concerned with what he called "vocationalism." With the growth in the number of students who plan to go to graduate school, he claimed, students are becoming more worried about grades and vocational courses. "Liberal education is taking a back seat," he said, "and more students are refraining from extracurricular activities...
...Extracurricular Disadvantage...
...major disadvantage of Sophomore Standing is that it hinders advancement in activities. Even if the A.P. Sophomore plunges right into his chosen extracurricular endeavor, he has only two years to work toward elective or appointive office...
...problem of extracurricular activities is easily met by what Wilcox calls "the most beneficial and least known provision of the program." The A.P. Sophomore is free to delay his degree a year and spend two terms as an undergraduate taking a number of courses in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...years old, Price is a tall, friendly man, whose voice still retains the gentle drawl of his native Kentucky. His chief current extracurricular concern is to visit his family on weekends in Scarsdale, New York. He has not been able to move them up here yet, and spends most of his spare time "real estate hunting" in the Boston area...