Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Summer School administration made much of its varied extracurricular offering, and was extremely concerned with public relations. Its immediate organ of publicity was the Harvard Summer News, published weekly for the School by editors of the CRIMSON, with aid from transient journalists in the Summer School. Since the News was published essentially as an organ of the School, it conformed--as much as it could--to its restrictions. The sensitive administration disliked controversy; thus a story on reactions or Arkansan students to the large primary victory of Orval Faubus was banned by the School on the grounds that it might...
While gentleman's C's, the prerogative of the Social Register set in the bygone era of the Gold Coast, satisfied the youthful squire of Hyde Park, he devoted himself with "incredible energy and perseverance" to extracurricular activities, Freidel emphasized...
Radcliffe will offer an extracurricular course in college teaching entitled "Can Scholars Teach?" for Radcliffe and Harvard graduate students...
Young Edmund, eldest of four children, picked up pocket money carrying the San Francisco Call and Chronicle, was a better-than-average student, starred in extracurricular activities. "I have always wanted to be a leader," he recalls. He won first prize in a grade school oratorical contest, ended his speech with the deathless words: "Give me liberty or give me death!" That promptly got him dubbed Patrick Henry Brown-and he has been Pat Brown ever since. But leadership had its problems for cautious Pat Brown. He was easily the best-liked kid at San Francisco's Lowell High...
...Mexican manager moved his boys from the first to the fifth floor of their hotel, hoping to confound athletic females with a nocturnal talent for window climbing. The Mexicans, too, were defeated. But they were not the only ones to reap extracurricular rewards. One luminous Swedish night an enterprising reporter camped outside the Northern Ireland team's hotel at 2 a.m., counted four window-climbing girls in half an hour...