Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feeling that the public is behind them, teachers are devising countermeasures for the opening of school in two weeks. Many plan to balk at supervising extracurricular activities, to refuse to teach overcrowded classes or to conduct and grade examinations. Even a nationwide strike of teachers is being talked about. "I can't rule it out," says Sir Ronald Gould, chairman of the National Union of Teachers...
...Harvard Crimson, which tells itself that it reflects student interests, was worried last year about the general academic trend of the College. "The College does not provide alternatives to academic success except in extracurricular terms," said a typical editorial. Was Harvard raising only future teachers? Was it offering a valid picture of business or professional life, asked the Crimeds...
...University of Chicago's exuberantly extracurricular Alice Schaeffer, 21, is an English major from Evanston, who moved the dean of students to burble that she is "the veritable Renaissance woman of unending versatility." A top scholar, Alice won such praise by tireless toil for the university theater, the annual Blackfriars shows, the Darwin show, the Billy Barnes Revue, the interdormitory council and the Festival of the Arts. This summer she has a job in a student revue at Chicago's Sherry Hotel; next fall she heads for Stanford and a master's degree. Her dream...
...been able really to determine the limits of his ability,'' says one physics professor. "I've never been able to ask him an exam question that he can't give a perfect answer to.'' Except for the astronomy club, Gunn steered clear of extracurricular activities, studied ten hours a day. Still, he found time for Army R.O.T.C. and the girl he married last week. Headed for Caltech to study astrophysics, Gunn thinks that "academic life is the only one that would suit me. I'm interested in problems that industry...
...just through social work or extracurricular activities that undergraduates penetrate the Cambridge community, however. Part-time jobs bring many students into the community and, in one recent instance, lent one Harvard student a certain fame...