Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't looking at the names when I matched them up," she says. "It was quite coincidental, based upon their interests, both academic and extracurricular...
First, we must ask whether the council is the extracurricular joke many students perceive it to be. If not--if the council does achieve results--then we should ask what the council can do to align its image with its reality. In other words, what must it do to convince us that it is, in fact, a legitimate and worthwhile...
Harvard life outside the classroom is certainly very enriching. When I look back on my time here, my extracurricular memories will no doubt leave a more vivid imprint on my mind than will a great section leader. And I would argue that I learned just as much, if not more, from my experience with student organizations as I did from my professors...
...question is, has all of this gone too far? Last year, Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris lamented on this page that Harvard is not sufficiently academically rigorous for its students. He cited the copious amounts of time spent on extracurricular activities as a serious impediment to creating a culture of scholarly learning. My English professor this semester has begged us over and over again to find quite spaces to sit and read poetry, lest the contemporary distractions of college life overwhelm...
...Extracurricular activities have mushroomed nearly out of control in the last decade or so, as the blurbs allotted to each in The Unofficial Guide annually shrink. The result is that interests have so diversified that the student body is becoming somewhat balkanized, with students forming almost every type of interest group under the sun, and with each tub on its own bottom...