Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, they claim, if the decision was based on discretionary grounds (Pell's perogative), then the Colonel based it to a considerable extent on degree of participation in extracurricular ROTC activities. "And in any case, the manner in which he acted represents, we fell, an intolerable violation of the explicit standards of the University," the letter said...
...Harvard Glee Club (with its somewhat dependent satellite the Radcliffe Choral Society). These are the big prestigious organizations; they involve the most people and are the first to attract the attention of neophyte musicians. They are the only musical organizations enjoying anything like official status. Like all extracurricular activity here, they receive no operating support from the University, but their conductors are appointed and paid by the University...
...Glee Club, the Choir is led by a University-appointee, in this case Mem Church's University organist and choirmaster. Its members are for the most part paid, making it something of an anomaly in the context of Harvard music (although less so as more professionals are employed in extracurricular activities). Some of its members, however, are "volunteers," participating as they would in any other organization...
...programs, we are expected to be responsive to various requests from within the Harvard community to speak about our own areas of direct experience. This may be before undergraduate clubs and special graduate groups, at seminars and panel discussions, and so forth. Most of us have taught a noncredit, extracurricular seminar for undergraduates, on such subjects as "The Racial Dilemma," "Candidate Strategy and Decision-Making," and "Working Group on Poverty in Boston." This opportunity, I think, has been invaluable to us: an experience in teaching and an exposure to learning. We do not masquerade as Faculty members...
...chancellor of multiracial Cape Town University, which numbers 266 blacks and Coloreds among its 6,392 students, the powerful diamond king coolly defended "the right of the university to run its own affairs"-despite the Vorster government's intensified campaign to force apartheid in all campus extracurricular activities. Said Oppenheimer: "What is the use of a civilization if we are not prepared to share it with men and women of all races...