Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five years at Harvard, Mrs. Pusey expresses only one regret. At Lawrence, where she worked extensively in the College's extracurricular activities, Mrs. Pusey could sit at her kitchen window and greet any student who passed--by his first name. Here, she has been able to know only a handful of undergraduates, and says that seeing students "is the thing I miss most...
With the lessened emphasis on studying comes a correspondingly greater stress upon extracurricular activities. Professor Key notes that "at Yale the boys seemed to take the secret societies very seriously." It is, according to many, a bit easier to become a Big Man On Campus at Yale, although a Yale professor points out that "the emphasis on extracurricular activities here has lessened...
...among his own kind and cut himself off from his rather unattractive, socially awkward classmates. He is seen as a collegiate version of the senile, plush-leather-armschair-sitters of London's clubs--rather disdainful of the academic life, of the University, and of participation in any extracurricular activity except the Lampoon or athletics...
...days, before the College System was introduced in the thirties, the fraternities were active in undergraduate life. They were extra-curricular centers for debating, sports, drama and service work, and the brothers lived together in them. But today these functions have been lost to the colleges and extracurricular groups, and the fraternities linger on as a questionable indulgence, confining themselves to meals, dances and liquor...
...last reached fulfillment. The campaign for union has been slow in maturing but each year some barricades have fallen. After a subtle start in the lecture hall, it soon spread to laboratories, tutorials and the stacks of Widener. From the academic it moved to the social and extracurricular, and just recently many undergraduate organizations have given...