Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard currently has several programs for bringing professionals to Cambridge. Through the Nieman Foundation journalists from across the nation spend a year's term here, both studying and, at times, giving informal instruction. The Institute of Politics attracts people involved in government who give extracurricular seminars in selected topics on current events. But the contact between these non-academicians and undergraduates takes place largely outside the channels of course work. If the University were to expand such programs and to permit people without a Corporation appointment to teach undergraduate courses, which it now prohibits, the instruction provided in a large...
...grind for high grades, many pre-med students give up extracurricular activities and a normal social life in favor of almost unbroken stretches of studying. "People have become so obsessed with what grade they are getting that what they are learning becomes secondary," says James Young, 20, a Duke University junior. "I know a lot of people who started out pre-med and would have made excellent doctors, but who dropped out because of the competition and the grades." Those who stay on keep closemouthed about what they have learned. Shared studying among pre-meds is rare; a student...
Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, for one, has taken steps to curb the competition by placing less importance on an applicant's test scores and searching for students with broad academic backgrounds and a record of participation in extracurricular activities. But many admissions officers still look mainly at grades and test scores, and automatically reject applicants if their marks are below a certain average, thus encouraging desperate competition...
...bold proposal that never stood much chance of getting Bok's approval--$130,000 a year in operating expenses, three full-time co-coordinators, a full-time secretary and a building, all to be paid for by the University. Harvard now gives money to some extracurricular activities, but the funding is more in hundreds of dollars than thousands...
Besides the monetary factor, there was another, more ideological issue behind Bok's decision. In his letter to the Third World committee rejecting the proposal for the center, Bok wrote that Harvard "has normally declined" to give money to extracurricular programs for "particular ethnic, national or religious groups...