Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your bloodcurdling article on hunting [Nov. 1] is a horrifying expose of the so-called "sport," particularly when it describes the extracurricular torture that goes into the training of the dogs who accompany the stonehearted hunters. Not content with killing for the pleasure of useless killing, often leaving wounded birds and animals to die a lingering death, these "sportsmen" must inflict carefully planned refinements of agony on the luckless pooches who are to be their helpers...
Danforth Fellowships are awarded to students interested in a teaching career who have shown academic and extracurricular excellence and who have a "genuine interest in religion and its relations to teaching...
Office finally got wind of Santawirja's extracurricular employment, and the Indonesian diplomat skipped out of the country and returned home. Last week a new Indonesian ambassador officially apologized to the Danish government for the charge's free enterprise...
Students quickly dubbed the new timetable "trimenster," found that it whittled away time for dating, extracurricular activities and lesson absorption. At Florida State University, one sophomore says: "I have a feeling of cramming rather than learning." Another student complained that he "had to read the Iliad in two nights." By taking a full load of courses each trimester, a student could graduate in as few as eight trimesters. But at the University of Florida, most students have gone the other way, cutting the average load from 15½ credit hours to 14½, while others attend only two trimesters...
...Magdalene College, where his father, a mathematics don, was president, Ramsey was an articulate Liberal and toyed with the thought of a political career. He was graduated with a first in theology and a disappointing second in classics-possibly because so much of his energies went into extracurricular affairs. One of them, he told a startled dinner gathering on his U.S. trip last year, was membership in a club "which met once a year for dinner. The high point of the dinner was eating white mice picked up by the tail, dipped in honey, and dropped wiggling down the throat...