Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that they will learn best what they want to learn. In its first sense (a gay freedom within academics), abandon means staying away from vapid lectures, auditing widely, and mostly, haunting the libraries and bookstores, reading broadly and selectively, making up personal bibliographies. In its second sense (pursuing extracurricular activities), academic abandon suggests the development of rigorous, but non-academic styles of education. In every college activity there are loafers, second-raters, but also the young men who make things happen, who direct plays, edit newspapers, write verse, organize campaigns. Managed properly, academic abandon is a rich life, offering...
...city of Cambridge has in fact a certain admiration for Harvard, particularly for some of its extracurricular organizations. Surprisingly enough, one of the more popular is the Harvard Band...
Although students and some Faculty members criticize the enforced professionalism of the Loeb Drama Center, Robert H. Chapman, the director, refuses to join in the protest. "All arts, extracurricular or not, should oblige the student to reach higher than he can easily go--beyond casual limitations," he says...
Similarly, in its efforts to expose its students to the full life, M.I.T. encourages sports (although it has no football team) and other extracurricular activities. Since academic disciplines are so rigorous, M.I.T. deliberately avoids setting down rules for personal conduct. The students themselves police excessive noise, late parties and other public nuisances...
...tradition of independence. But his picture has no moving parts; it does not come alive. What is any description of Harvard without mention of the Harvard-Yale football game, of the Bick, of the banks of the Charles, or of the massive amount of creative energy that goes into extracurricular activities? Harvard's diversity is not so much in its geographical distribution and large complement of foreigners, but rather in the individuality and idiosyncrasies of each separate student. Its freedom is not so much in its liberal attendance and parietal rules, but in the atmosphere of free choice and self...