Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Powell's extracurricular record has been more consistently spectacular. For years he finagled luxurious European jaunts, in the company of pretty secretaries, at the taxpayer's expense. His third wife lives in Puerto Rico while drawing $20,000 annually as a staff member; estranged from her about two years ago, Powell has recently been depositing her pay in his own account. Another staff member was a former beauty queen whose diligence once earned her a raise from $10,144 to $15,583 a year. Even as rebellion flared in Powell's own committee last week, the House...
...prospect of a residential college as Administrators think they should be. Students complained that one of the primary reasons for moving off-campus was that they spent so little time in the Quad that paying for three uneaten meals a day was expensive and wasteful. They cited classes and extracurricular activities as the major components of their life, and pointed out that these are all centered around Harvard Yard, a mile from Radcliffe...
...members of the Class of '41 entered Harvard in September, 1937, much of this was still ahead. Deans reminded them that the fall hour exams would soon be separating the men from the boys. Howard Mumford Jones, Chairman of the American history committee, started a special program of extracurricular reading for freshman, because he said he felt that a required course in American history would amount to "indoctrination worthy of Hitler...
...invoked the "undergraduate perspective" as a valuable dimension which juniors and seniors might add to advising. Specifically, they think that a senior or junior would probably have the most up-to-date information of courses, teachers, and fields of concentration. They also think that undergraduates would know more about extracurricular activities and might help freshmen become involved in University life...
...nowhere near giving up on their church-partly because their church has historically been forever beginning, partly because it includes such men as Raines, who do seem to understand the need to modernize. "I get letters every day asking why we must get involved in what is termed extracurricular activities, why we can't save souls and let it go at that," says another forward-looking elder statesman, Bishop John Owen Smith of Atlanta, 63. "My answer is that the church has forever been involved in social issues...