Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year's 25th reunion class) and to the autumn, 1953 controversy over whether to extend Radcliffe parietal hours from 10 to 11 p.m. (They eventually were extended, but only for seniors in Group IV or above). The Crimson, and most Harvard men, ignored the many not-strictly-social extracurricular activieis of Radcliffe women. In the early 1950s, they had many of their own athletic teams, The Radcliffe News, By-Line, a literary magazine, and a radio station WRRD, operating in affiliation with the MIT radio station until 1960. The Crimson, in its 1950 registration issue commented only that "today...
...lowered for athletic prowess at the expense of true diversity. I am encouraged by the agenda of the University Resources Committee, and hope that the equal time it spent studying athletics and the arts is a fair barometer of the relative weight that should be placed on extracurricular activities at Harvard...
...educational concern leave much to be desired," it read, and it goes on to envision a set of student-faculty committees as forums for open discussion of issues affecting student life and education. The Fainsod Committee thus called for a student voice in shaping policy related to student housing, extracurricular activities, and broad educational policy, but it specifically rejected a model of total democracy. Instead, the committee argued to exclude students from voting on such matters as tenure appointments and final curriculum decisions, because, it said, a professionally trained and experienced Faculty would make more informed decisions...
...April 17, the Faculty passed a resolution ending all "special privileges" for ROTC, reducing it to the status of any other extracurricular activity. At the same meeting, however, the Faculty deferred a decision on granting student participation in the Afro Department. Enraged. Afro leaders promised to hold "office hours" in the Faculty Room at University Hall to air their grievances to the Faculty...
...experience with Diana Thomson's fiction class this fall stands above and beyond a whole multitude of highlights in what for me has been a very exciting and satisfying first year at Harvard. While immersing myself in extracurricular activities that included drama, work, and an active social life, I found little reason to give serious attention to my three other general education courses during the first half of the year. On the other hand, Mrs. Thomson made my first encounter with creative writing not only a learning experience, but also the only class in which I felt a real academic...