Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although pleased with the interest in extracurricular activities, Gitlin, unlike other leaders, "was not overly surprised." In fact; he expects even more freshmen to join during the second semester...
...long '66 will persist in its extracurricular inclination no one can say. Certainly by November hour exams some of the enthusiasm will have been replaced by proper Harvardian cynicism...
...with running Pitt, he is chairman of Smith-Corona Marchant's board of directors, a member of Stude baker's executive committee, a director of Avco Corp., and founder-chairman of Washington's Governmental Affairs Institute. Pitt pays him $45,000 a year, plus expenses. His extracurricular activities boost that to roughly...
...latter "serve a more real need than student governments if only because their activities have to be thought out sufficiently to be written down. Student newspapers are inane enough, but where there is a spark of undergraduate imagination, sometimes even intellect, it often shows itself here." A reform in extracurricular activities seems unlikely to the author since "the genius of the American university ...is its capacity to create positions within itself for all those it has trained to be useless elsewhere...
...last, and most romantic, undergraduate fling of the year--the elephant race. It all began out in California, where the Dean of newly founded Orange County State College gave his students a model constitution to use for reference anytime they wanted to start a new extracurricular organization. He made the dummy constitution, just for laughs, in the form of a charter for an elephant racing club...