Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Extracurricular groups at the College are having more financial problems and more difficulty in recruiting key personnel than ever before, according to Dean Watson. In a discussion of the changes in undergraduate activities in the last five years, Watson, who oversees extracurricular affairs, picked these two factors as the most noticeable...
...facilities whereby needy students might operate businesses to earn money needed to meet their college expenses; to raise funds for scholarships for needy and deserving students; and to offer such students an opportunity to witness and participate in the operation of a business surprise as part of their extracurricular activities while at Harvard College...
...does not seem possible that I should have to point out that drama is an extracurricular activity which must be organized around the necessities of an academic calendar. We do not become a community until September 20 each year and, thenceforth, hour exams, vacations, recesses and finals confront us with inexorable regularity...
...need starve if he can hack out odes extolling "socially useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of Soviet writers privately turn out poems about lovemaking, maladjustment, and other concerns of the soul neglected by seven-year plans. They call such extracurricular outpourings "poetry for the desk drawer," because it is unproletarian and unpublishable. Yet one of the most revealing aspects of Russian evolution since Stalin has been the growth of the desk drawer...
...high school Abrams won nearly every academic and extracurricular honor in sight. As captain and center of the football team, he led his school to an undefeated, untied and unscored-upon season and the championship of Western Massachusetts. One day a West Point graduate lectured at school and enraptured Abe with tales of the Academy and its spirit...