Word: extracurricular
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Glimp defended the present ratio by pointing out that "PRL isn't the only thing we admit people on." He added that the admissions committee is looking more and more at personal qualities and extracurricular achievements than at the sacred "top one per cent." Many of the private schoolers with relatively low PRL's contribute to the intellectual and social atmosphere of the College, he maintained...
...bourgeois straitjacket she so compellingly described in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Sartre, 24, the high-priest-to-be of existentialism, was a physically unprepossessing philosopher with an urge to write. The two plighted their troth in what was destined to become one of the strangest and most durable extracurricular alliances of modern times. The Prime of Life is Simone de Beauvoir's account of her own philosophical growth and self-inflicted torments from 1929 to 1944-the first 15 years of her life with Sartre...
...guest editors, who will work on the August issue in New York City, won their appointments on the basis of reports on campus fashions, the arts, classroom studies, and extracurricular activities completed during the school year...
Taking a look at themselves, the critics found that the average Trinity student "makes few efforts to distinguish himself culturally." His extracurricular activities are "ludicrous and grotesque," and cheating on exams is "tacitly accepted." Typically, he "does not have any concept of what education involves, nor does he give any evidence of wanting to find out." Music Professor Clarence Walters, whose department got the worst panning, called it "inconceivable that the administration should permit the publication of such a report." But Trinity's President Albert C. Jacobs promptly forwarded the document to his trustees, with a proud note...
...view, are equally successful. They make lots of money and provide lots of student jobs: just count. The Administration has done that, and no more. It has not canvassed the side effects of HSA. HSA provides jobs: to whom? and with what equity in salaries? The HSA offers lucrative extracurricular activities: what ill effects does HSA have on the entire community of amateur undergraduate organizations? Tentative answers have been proposed for these questions, but the Administration troubles itself with neither questions nor answers: HSA books are in the black, and HSA is growing--that is enough...