Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visual Arts Center may poll students for suggestions about possible extracurricular activities which the Center might sponsor...
...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 make-up and shiny clean hair than in most lower level survey courses. And majors like Soc. Rel., Fine Arts, History, English, and History and Lit., some-how 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...
What fired up Father Carey was a recent stroll about his parish when "I had to chase two couples out of a doorway." Such encounters have shaken many other Catholic educators, but even banning steady daters from extracurricular activities seems unworkable to Chicago's archdiocesan school superintendent, Msgr. William McManus. He prefers counseling to regulating, even though "steady dating is getting to be old hat in Chicago." As for public schools, one top Denver official typically rejects rules on dating as "an invasion of rights that belong in the home." San Francisco's School Superintendent Harold Spears holds...
...specialized talent, such top scholars as New York University Economist Marcus Nadler earn up to $300 a day as consultants to management. University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield is also chairman of Smith-Corona Marchant and a director of Studebaker and Avco Corp. The hub of this extracurricular activity is Boston, where some 1,000 space-age companies have grown up since World War II, most of them started there to exploit readily available brain power and many of them founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard theorists themselves...