Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back to Harvard and the Loeb Drama Center. You will see, I hope, how our reasoning has moved: enough instruction--extracurricular--to train the non-professional in his responsibilities, to help him to respect thoroughness, care, technical skill and intelligent planning, to show him how and why; but not enough to make him think of himself as a professional. He is not, and can not be professional until he works much longer and more concentratedly in his theatrical specialty than he will be able to do at Harvard, or for that matter at any other university, possibly excepting Carnegie Tech...
...identify the creative person, so that we can seek out and encourage such students. They should not be penalized for their failure to play the 'goodboy' role or to satisfy the pointless demand for 'well-roundedness' by dissipating their energies in a frenetic round of extracurricular activities and 'good works.' . . . We must re-examine the use of scholarship aid funds, the selection of students, the meaning of grades, the effectiveness of teaching practices and the impact of college training if we are to conserve and develop our intellectual and creative resources...
...much does it cost to attend a free U.S. public high school? Plenty, says Education Professor Errett Hummel of Portland (Ore.) State College. The average high school student in Oregon spends $238.46 a year on extracurricular expenses. The cost is the reason many students quit school, says Hummel...
...children grow less dependent on her, Suburbia's housewife fills her newfound time with a dizzying assortment of extracurricular projects that thrust her full steam into community life. Beyond the home-centered dinner parties, Kaffeeklatsches and card parties, there is a directory-sized world of organizations devised for husbands as well as for wives (but it is the wife who keeps things organized). In New Jersey's Levittown, a projected 16,000-unit replica of the Long Island original, energetic suburbanites can sign up for at least 35 different organizations from the Volunteer Fire Department to the Great...
...year at Southern Methodist University) had impressive records to maintain. At Highland Park, both were presidents of their senior class, both were members of the National Honor Society, and both were recipients of the top award given by the National Honor Society for all-round excellence in grades and extracurricular activities...