Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the survey respondents, according to the report, said they were unclear about the separate priorities and activities of Harvard and Radcliffe colleges. Women graduates who participated in the discussion groups also noted "significant confusion" in the roles of Harvard and Radcliffe in undergraduate education, extracurricular life and fundraising...
...when students at Harvard were small in number and elite in status, they could ignore the world outside and concentrate on great books. But today, most students will leave this place to enter the real world where real knowledge matters less than acquired skills that are often gained through extracurricular activities...
...always amazed by the extracurricular life at Harvard. While by day students attend lectures and sections and listen to learn about life, by night the College transforms and students actually experience life. Students wonder why an energetic social life is absent; it's because all that energy has somehow been funneled into extracurricular activities: plays, magazines, newspapers, orchestras and more. And while some may decry this experience and the funneling of student energy into extracurricular life, this is really one of the most important parts of Harvard life...
Although the Core is supposed to each us approaches to knowledge (an admirable goal, no doubt), we achieve the approaches to knowledge not in the Core, but in our extracurricular activities. We learn how to maintain an organization, coordinate with people, work in a team towards a common goal, balance the other parts of our lives with these responsibilities as well as countless other lessons we could never learn passively in Core classes--or any others...
...Extracurricular activities and jobs can even fill the seeming void in an application if they are appropriate to an applicant's field of interest, Daniels says...