Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seriously argue that the range of appropriate subjects for college study is infinite. No popular interest in racketeering or bugging telephones could induce Harvard to initiate even extracurricular programs in these fields. Each proposed program may be accepted or rejected on its merits...
...Faculty voted 385 to 25 on April 17, 1969 to recommend that the Harvard Corporation deny ROTC any privileges beyond those accorded to other extracurricular organizations...
Even in April, under an atmosphere of far greater tension than could have prevailed in February, only two Faculty members spoke in favor of an SDS resolution to deny ROTC recognition in any curricular or extracurricular form. All other resolutions, contrary to the implication of Bok's June speech, were phrased in terms of educational--not political--policy...
Despite the apparent intention of the Faculty in February to reduce ROTC, at the very least, to an extracurricular program, the Corporation announced it would deny ROTC credit, but that it would not be bound by Faculty recommendations on ROTC's use of Harvard facilities...
...Chicken Ranch became an accepted extracurricular activity - and the scene of some rites of passage. "If we found out somebody was a virgin," says one A. & M. graduate, "we'd kidnap him, tie him up on the floorboard, and take him to the ranch." So routine were evenings at Edna's that the school began to provide penicillin free...