Word: extracurricular
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...Everything we do at Harvard has a title, a leader, an e-mail list, and, what’s worse, a sense of obligation. College life is defined by a stream of organizations: Not only our academic and extracurricular activities, but also our times to socialize, have become prearranged and grouped...
...implemented. Although the event’s focus is on the career possibilities in the arts and humanities, Greenblatt notes that the development of course offerings is tied to career choice. “The first goal of the Task Force is to move art-making from the extracurricular sphere to the curricular sphere,” Greenblatt says. “The purpose of doing that is connected to many things, including the careers of students.”Students will also have the opportunity to learn more about student groups that are involved in the arts and humanities...
...same belief in the importance of the individual applicant’s freedom—and responsibility—to choose how best to make the case for admission underlies our long-standing invitation to submit essays, CDs, academic or creative projects, or anything else that best represents academic, extracurricular, and personal accomplishments. We seek to bring to Harvard students with the maturity and independent -mindedness to exercise choice responsibly. Students can take tests knowing they will be able to choose which ones to send to colleges. The fact that test results will not automatically be part of the permanent...
...focus of the fight, on a growing number of campuses, is the Reserve Officers Training Corpe (ROTC), which was kicked off most of the Ivy League campuses (or made an extracurricular activity) during the antiwar protests of the 1960s. The Yale Political Union concluded this fall that the university ought to bring ROTC back to campus, a move some students said would help the school live up to its motto: "For God, For Country, and For Yale." While many of the objections are based on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays...
...push for more collective social space that serves the student body, there should be more on-campus art exhibitions. The student body would also benefit from more visiting artists and artists-in-residence. An emphasis on teaching and interaction with undergraduates, in the shape of formal classes, informal extracurricular sessions, or study groups akin to the current Institute of Politics Fellows Program would benefit both students and the artists who would find in Harvard a community in which to live and create. Among the report’s suggestions was a new undergraduate Dramatic Arts concentration, and Harvard could certainly...