Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month the Graduate Student Council of Catholic University in Washington submitted all these names on a list of a dozen speakers it proposed to invite for an extracurricular lecture series. Last week Monsignor Joseph McAllister, the university's vice rector, acknowledged that he had rejected Murray, Weigel, Diekmann and Küng. Reason: all have been "outspoken on matters of concern to the Vatican Council" (which is currently in adjournment), and he did not think that the university should give them a public platform...
Probably most of the people who spend much time in an extracurricular activity do not rationalize taking that time away from their studies. But those who do rationalize have a powerful, if seemingly naive, argument in their support (attention, Radcliffe): a good activity allows one to deal with real situations that a classroom never sees, and lets him make mistakes at negligible cost. It is an escape from professionalism with broader than professional utility...
...sophomore with no significant extracurricular interests may also find his second year at Harvard extremely trying. For such a student, particularly if he has no consuming interest in his studies, the "identity crisis may be the most critical problem of his years at Harvard...
...While they prate of the lack of communication among moderns, each spills a major grievance. Gloria's husband is an unread clod. Ben flunked a French exam that meant getting into college. When Ben and Gloria go to bed together, and then agree to meet weekly for more extracurricular love and French lessons, a double irony is consummated. Her special pride was her fidelity; his was being a self-taught genius. The Wallachs drum a tattoo of laughs on The Tiger's hide, and just as expertly drain the comic pathos from The Typists, a tale...
...done is to have visual experience, visual exploration and visual creation share in education a revelant place with verbal experience, investigation and creation .... Backbone of the program is what has been designated the core course together with workshops. In addition there will be advanced workshops, seminars and special projects. Extracurricular activity will be sponsored in the Center and, continuing an existing tradition, in the individual Harvard Houses. Exhibitions will be shown throughout the year and it is hoped to invite as teachers distinguished guests from many disciplines that have a bearing on visual studies: artists and scientists, film-makers...