Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are of course the usual disclaimers: "our goal is to admit good talented people. We have no quotas of any kind--gender, race, ethnicity, field of study, geographic locale, extracurricular activities. We want to bring together individuals who will make up an exciting and diverse class..." trumpets the Harvard-Radcliffe application...
...direct contrast, several Harvard students have been accused and even convicted in the past year of stealing major amounts of money from various extracurricular activities. Most people are familiar with the most egregious of these acts, in which three years ago, Charles K. Lee '93 stole almost $120,000 from An Evening With Champions, a charity event run by Eliot House intended to benefit children with cancer. But there have been several other incidents in which students have abused the trust given them and embezzled thousands of dollars from the groups of which they were members...
...Name recall: Together people remember names. They can also put these names to faces. Together people are unfazed when they run into their first-year hallmates and sophomore year extracurricular-mates while walking with co-workers--together people remember not only all the names, but the hometowns and general bios as well. "Lois, are you still into watercolors? David here is thinking of switching from oils...
...have managed to get this far. The answer is straightforward--enablers. Parents who are willing to make tax and travel arrangements (my mother is organized enough to frighten off the IRS). Kind friends who don't mind waiting 15 minutes at Uno's for their dinner companion to arrive. Extracurricular companions who organize major committees and post prominent notices of meetings. Those sorts of people. It's still undecided whether or not this comprises a step towards sainthood, but it definitely accumulates a lot of good karma...
...They thought that it was a good sport to develop character," Tseng says. "It was also a good chance to meet people. It was a social extracurricular...