Word: extracurricular
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...student in the Music Department who often spends his summers interning or working for music festivals, I find the artistic atmosphere at Harvard a little strange. I think it is a shame that, for the vast majority of students, artistic expression must be relegated to extracurricular activities, and I question why we must break our backs to get extracurriculars off the ground when they are, in fact, what many of us live for and prefer...
Harvard alum and dancer Ryuji Yamaguchi ’03 remarked that “Harvard has a dance program that is primarily extracurricular and open to the student body.” Do you feel this is true of other artistic endeavors at Harvard...
...we’ve internalized and miniaturized this sense of history: many blocking groups, for instance, comprise amended freshman rooming groups; allegiances to extracurricular activities and friends endure, largely unchanged, over the course of many Harvard careers. It is in this context that study abroad feels so unnatural. Harvard hasn’t changed much over centuries. Why should our Harvard change so dramatically over the course of a semester? “Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow;/ Nought may endure but Mutability;” Shelley proclaims gloomily...
Some students, including Sandra L. Di Capua ’07, said they believe the summer options are more beneficial than those offered during the school year because summer study abroad excursions wouldn’t require students to miss any classes or extracurricular activities...
...prohibits an educational institution from encouraging any student to take a leave of absence,” he writes. “In many instances this may be exactly the right piece of advice for a student who for whatever reason is not effectively participating in the academic and extracurricular activities of the school...