Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school year ended, Weiss was triple-timing between lectures, cramming sessions for exams and his extracurricular work as editor of his campus paper, the Daily Bruin. All that recalled a familiar routine to Writer Ed Magnuson, who, as a student at the University of Minnesota 18 years ago, was a reporter for the Minnesota Daily. In those days, the most burning campus issue was not the draft; it was fraternity discrimination-both religious and racial. "We tried our best to be impartial," says Magnuson, "but of course the paper wound up flailing the Greeks...
...Assignment Committee takes many other factors into consideration, Watson said, in order to achieve a balance among the Houses. A student's predicted rank list (a measure of how well the Deans expect him to do in his four years), his field of concentration, his athletic and extracurricular activities, and the personal evaluation of his proctor and senior advisor all become part of a freshman's folder...
While we appreciate the need for maintaining many of the services mentioned in your letter--"the operation of Hilles Library, the Deans' Office, the protection of the Harvard University Police ... extracurricular facilities in Agassiz and the Gymnasium ..."--we nevertheless fear that any contributions to such services would serve only to free funds for use on Radcliffe's new dormitory system. We do not mean, however, to preclude the renovation of existing dormitories...
...reading for three or four courses (on any level of superficiality) within three weeks. Most of us just don't read that quickly. Imam, himself, argues that keeping up with reading during the term takes so much of a student's time that he has none left for extracurricular life. Probably neither of these major contentions can be true; statistically they cannot both...
When Adams came to Harvard, he approached swimming with a new perspective. "Harvard's coaches don't want any animal swimmers," he said. "They really stress studies and other extracurricular activities...