Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each reader fills out a sheet containing a few comments on the applicant and perhaps more importantly, a set of one-to-six ratings on the basis of his academic, extracurricular, athletic and personal qualities. It is four numbers that constitute the applicant's "profile" and provide a handy numerical system which can be used to compare even the most diverse pair of candidates...
Others involve themselves in extracurricular activities--sometimes exclusively--deciding that they are more educational than what Harvard's course catalogue has to offer; that the people involved are easier to approach; and that, in some ways, they present an easier way for students to regain the "big fish" status that they enjoyed earlier. Or they take it slightly further, trying for an even bigger-fish status by joining the university's political power structure...
...departmental and general education requirements, devote their full energies to their studies and to trying to feel at home in a community that they perceive as one in which friendships are close and usually formed in freshman and sophomore years. Time to sample and experiment, in academics and with extracurricular activities, is a luxury they don't have...
...theory that productive learning is measured by the credit-mile, and extracurricular acclimatization is a luxury inconsequential to one's ultimate distinction. Extension degree candidates have no established access to such revitalizing facilities as sports, drams and music groups, clubs or scholarship funds, not to mentions, until now, a voice in The Crimson, Certainly the small--though growing--proportion of seriously continuing students would hardly deplete Harvard's physical and financial endowment. with many younger people breaking the traditional four year syndromes is embark on necessary remunerative work during their "college years," the option to participate fully in all aspect...
...particular field can provide not only solid advice (solicited or not!) but also access to job opportunities, at the very least a chance to explore the working world guided by a friend. For the busily aging "undergrad" who may be preparing for career change, sharing the learning process in extracurricular activities at the College can be crucial, especially gratifying in company of other admitted novices a rare circumstance indeed in the real world, where the forty-plus-year-old dares not acknowledge a fear of inadequacy and inexperience...