Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chance for women to break out of their culturally restricted social roles and ask a man out on a date. And in case anyone is interested, we had a blast at the soiree. It was a chance to see old friends and acquaintances in a non-academic, non extracurricular social setting. Talk was light, feet danced all night and we got to drink champagne with Dean Bovet...
...isolation of the one-room school leaves many students starved for greater contact with peers and more extracurricular activities. "I was bored out there," says Wendy Stanton, 15, who attended Pine Grove and now boards in Jordan as a high school freshman. "You miss your friends...
...world: in the midst of Conservative Party turmoil, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, a devoted Old Etonian remembered for his play along the Wall, was scheduled to come down to the school to address its political society. In some ways, in fact, there is almost an embarrassment of extracurricular riches. "The school needs to be more sympathetic to the personal psychology of adolescent boys, and give them time to simply think," wrote one adolescent boy in answer to a questionnaire about the use of students' time...
...clearly stated in our published material, the admissions process takes into account a wide array of information which goes well beyond SAT scores and a list of extracurricular activities, the two "standards of the American college admissions process" which Mughogho asserts puts foreign applicants "necessarily at a disadvantage...
...therefore object strongly to Mughogho's contention that "students could...be eliminated on technicalities" (in his example, the fact that social service is not a commonplace extracurricular opportunity in non-Western societies "that are not directly related to their ability to do well at college...