Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More and more, professors are called away to advise on everything from the design of skyscrapers to the polishing of presidential candidates. The trend is filling professorial pockets, if not student heads. The average full professor at top U.S. campuses earns less than $12,000 a year, but highly extracurricular profs now make $30,000 and more...
Another alleged factor is the so-called "bourgeois grade orientation" of public school graduates as opposed to the blase attitudes of many students from private schools. In addition, defenders of private schools graduates claim that preppies tend to engage in more extracurricular activities than students of public school background...
...Hesitation. Untrammeled by theory, many a U.S. corporation has already put the efficiency of programed learning to work in job training and company-sponsored adult-education courses. Bell Laboratories has a programed course in basic electricity for its employees. Polaroid offers programed courses to its employees in extracurricular subjects like languages and photography. Eastman Kodak is programing logarithms, economics and industrial relations. All are using programing without machines...
Although the group concentrated hard on both their studies and their extracurricular activities, Frank T. Baldwin remembers Lodge as not only a "very brilliant student" but also "a very entertaining guy to live with." On weekends, the roommates often would drive to Nahant and picnic on Lodge's beach. Three of them, including Cabot, had drivers' licenses and bought an old Model T Ford which Newell describes as "the hot rod of its day--sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't." When it didn't, it occasionally involved the owners in embarrassing situations. Once the car stalled in front...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Affiliation Committee, a student group which has spent a year and a half investigating the administrative, academic, and extracurricular relationships between the two Colleges, has produced a series of disappointingly shortsighted, pedestrian, or obvious recommendations for altering the present situation, No doubt the committee is to be commended for the good sense and practicality of most of is proposals, but a little more long-range creative thinking about the problems and possibilities of Harvard-Radcliffe affiliation might have produced a more valuable guide to action. As the report stands, some of its strongest recommendations lose much of their...