Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of Gabay's conversations are more rooted in his own daily responsibilities, though. A typical day begins with an early awakening for his Crimson delivery route. He studies for a few hours before classes, and then spends the bulk of the afternoon and evening attending to his extracurricular enterprises...
...report focuses particularly on bolsteringundergraduate education. Rudenstine suggestsseveral measures: improving House life, increasingfunding for extracurricular activities,heightening support for student research andexpanding opportunities for small-groupinstruction...
Ayanna A. Cage '97, another program organizer, said first-years and upperclass students were matched according to their academic interests and extracurricular activities...
...heard that it used to be short for "competition" but that sounded too scary. So someone, perhaps someone at Room 13, changed it to the gentler term, "competency." I'm not sure "competency" is a nicer word. It's certainly doesn't clarify anything. When you comp an extracurricular here, what kind of "competency" are you proving? It would depend on the extracurricular, of course. I have my suspicions...
They nod their heads if I tell them how competitive it can be to join an extracurricular here, because "comp: short for competition" works very well with their image of a hyperambitious Harvard...