Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young Americans for Freedom is a national organization of conservative college students. The Harvard chapter, following the rules for extracurricular activities, has no official connection with the national group. "But we agree with them on just about everything," Paszter said...
...other committees and their chairmen are: Residence and Administration of Houses, Jerome Kagan, professor of Developmental Psychology; Extracurricular Activities, Dean Watson...
...hard life being an SDSer those days and I gave up after a precious few of them. For one thing, I made the startling discovery that SDS meetings were a drag and tended to consume whole evenings at a gulp. For another. I drifted into alternative extracurricular pursuits where people seemed to get on a lot easier with each other and where it was possible to meet a considerably wider assortment. Still, I continued to assume, come the revolution, that I would leap forth-with into the ranks of Harvard's insurgents, whoever they might be. And I continued...
...course a flavor alone doesn't absolutely determine anything as objective as courses or extracurricular activities. Yet the composition of Fine Arts 13 somehow feels different. There seems to be more flirting. joking, and talking, more girls with careful makeup and shiny clean hair than in most lower level survey courses. And majors like Soc Rel., Fine Arts, History, English, and History and Lit, somehow have a peachiness about them...
Upper level English courses contain many of these girls, as do courses in creative writing, foreign languages, and the other humanities. They rarely participate in extracurricular activities, with the exception of creative arts. When they do act, write, paint, or play instruments, it is usually extremely well. Probably they wrote poetry when they were young...