Word: extracurricular
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...candidates are those with the highest grade averages in their class; there are slightly more than twice as many of them as there are places to fill. The electors have before them each candidate's grade average and grade distribution, the comments of tutors and Senior Tutor, the extracurricular activities (of which the House office is aware), the courses taken, and the grade received in each...
Summer School students will be allowed to organize extracurricular clubs including political groups this summer for the first time in the history of the Summer School...
...noted, however, that the Summer School "has been remarkable for its lack of policy" in this area, and that the express purpose of the committee was to decide "the proper range of extracurricular activities and to set up general policy guides...
Better Than School. Because of their extracurricular frenzy, law-review men are often unprepared in class. On the other hand, the reward for their work on the reviews, as Yale's outgoing Editor in Chief Peter Strauss typically describes it, is "the most intellectually exciting experience of my life." Says another editor: "I wrote one note on parole laws and it was worth seven courses in criminal law." Not surprisingly, law schools are now straining to give all students a touch of law-review experience by requiring far more independent research. "Law reviews are by far the best training...
...House System is intended to provide the benefits of contact with faculty and facilities for seminars and extracurricular interests. These goals are certainly commendable but there exists reasonable doubt of the possibility of doing these things at Radcliffe. Until the present Houses, which include every girl at Radcliffe, can be shown to have succeeded in these endeavors, there is no sense in building another at great expense and inconvenience...