Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nothing Millions. The fundamental problem is political. The county has been solidly Democratic since 1932, and its politicians have made corruption a way of life. An amenable Gary mayor can figure on an extracurricular income during his four-year term of $3,000,000 to $6,000,000-all for doing nothing. The only real mistake that a local official can make is to fail to report his graft on his income-tax return...
Undoubtedly the proposed change will meet with resistance. It's questionable whether upperclassmen have to live in the dorm in order for freshmen to have contact with them, since there is ample opportunity in classes and extracurricular activities for freshmen to meet older students. But many freshmen who would like to meet them don't, as the HUC's poll indicated. An alternative proposed by the Council is to have groups of juniors and seniors assigned to dorm entries. This plan would avoid the disciplinary problems that might arise with an undergraduate proctor system, and, if the "dorm affiliates" were...
...around at the Tompkins County Airport in Ithaca, N.Y. "Well," said Cornell President James Perkins, 54, "I love you too." He had just returned from a professional conference in Italy, and the students were fuming more than usual that the president spends too much of his time on such extracurricular responsibilities and not enough on running his own school. The kids handed him a petition asking what he planned to do about off-campus housing shortages and why the grades were so low last term. Perkins smiled: "This is a wonderful welcome...
...might feel sheepish about taking Hum 2 would be less reluctant to enroll in one of the new upper-level Gen Ed courses. The senior would also be able to use his liberated time to hear that one lecturer he'd always wanted to hear or to complete the extracurricular project he never had time for before...
...enough to be able to respond to the ideas and enthusiasms of its students as well as of its staff, but is large enough for anyone to find kindred spirits, and to form and develop the friendships that are often one of the most durable parts of Harvard's extracurricular dividends. Each has its distinctive tone and style, and will, I believe, not lose them as each Master chooses his own staff to complement his own personality. So it is clear to me that each of the Houses contains all the physical and administrative equipment needed...