Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though an executive order forbids White House staffers to use their positions to earn money on the outside, Schlesinger justifies his moonlighting with the argument that none of his extracurricular writings impinge on Administration policies or pursuits, and that he turns his extra earnings over to worthy causes, including the Harvard Fund, class of 1938 division...
...golf shows, he will play a series of exhibitions (at a minimum of $2,000 each), and he is negotiating contracts for endorsements of slacks, walking shorts, sports jackets, windbreakers, shoes, cigarettes and skin bracer. Arnold Palmer, an old hand at such matters, has often complained that his extracurricular business activities leave him too little energy for playing championship-caliber golf, and youthful Jack Nicklaus is going to have to adjust to being a celebrity too. If he can, with at least a dozen good playing years ahead of him, there seems no limit to the heights he may reach...
...Probation: a more serious warning. Students on probation must attend all their classes and cannot participate in extracurricular activities. Among the misdeeds that incur a sentence of probation are neglect the Physical Training Requirement or failure to receive at least three C's and a D in any one term. In general, probation does not last more than one term -- after this time the student is either restored to good standing or forced to take a leave of absence. (Harvard has a milder form of the same which it uses with uppercase Called "House Warning," of probation does not exclude...
...refute the charge that "moral" education no longer exists in Harvard or any other American college or university, Pusey turned for evidence to the College's extracurricular activities, and particularly to the "many and varied welfare programs" of Phillips Brooks House. He pointed out that approximately 600 students--well over ten per cent of the College--participate in these affairs each year...
Noting that the extracurricular achievements of Harvard students were made under a heavy work load--over half the College now tries for degrees with honors--Pusey said that "surely the individuals who achieved this full record were not unconcerned persons, lost in the of their own private affairs and thoughts...