Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will this sort of instruction really work? Some educators have taken it seriously enough to give it a try. The Institute of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University is considering using it in an extracurricular course. The Institute of Logopedics in Wichita, Kans. is experimenting to see if it will help cure speech defects. For two years, Charles R. Elliott, psychologist at the University of North Carolina, ran tests with another pillow-mike apparatus which its inventor, bubbly little President Max Sherover of the Linguaphone Institute, calls a "cerebrograph." Psychologist Elliott found that a student who has been subjected...
Most of the College's 66 undergraduate organizations already have "adequate meeting places," the Provost said yesterday. "But there has been a need for meeting and office space centrally located to serve as many as possible of the College's extracurricular activities. The Student Activities Center will meet this need...
McCarthy's incessant, explosive extracurricular activities, plus the luck, deadly nerve and ferocious vitality with which he has sought and found oil, have made him one of the most highly publicized Texans since Sam Houston. This does not mean that he is popular; many of his fellow citizens grudgingly envy him his wealth and audacity. As many more deprecate him, and point out, correctly, that he is hardly typical of the Texas millionaire (see box). Nevertheless, Glenn McCarthy is as peculiarly a product of Texas as the famed San Jacinto monument; the Lone Star State...