Word: extracurricular
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According to Smith, it was “the mix of academic and extracurricular success at Harvard with the practical success of being on the campaign trail was a unique combination of experiences” that may have made him a distinctive candidate...
...pursuit provides, as a matter of course, the knowledge, understanding, and analytical ability needed for long-term success in life beyond Harvard and as a citizen (those very few courses actually prerequisite to study in professional schools or to success in the business world naturally have an additional function). Extracurricular activities provide ample opportunity for devotion to other matters. One effect of the proposal would be to render the extracurricular curricular, thus undermining the curriculum. For these reasons, the proposal strikes me as anti-academic, even anti-intellectual. PETER J. BURGARD Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 15, 2006 The writer...
...stereotype of a good Asian child, according to the traditional Asian parents. Among my parents’ friends, no parent told their child, ‘Be like Peipei,’” she says. In high school, Zhang excelled academically and participated in a slew of extracurriculars, but it was her outgoing personality that stood out: teachers told her she was “too loud” to be an Asian girl. And yet, Zhang succeeded in winning a spot at Harvard. The Chinese-American community she grew up with in Boston was shocked...
...discussion and judgment. I am, of course, not blind to the moral force of humanistic inquiry, a point that Martha Nussbaum, among others, has made quite well. But the current model of university education seems particularly divorced from human action; its practical dimension seems to have been outsourced to extracurricular groups on campus. Yet mere intellectualism cannot in any way be said to replace the satisfaction of religious instruction...
Harvard students learn as much from their extracurriculars as from their studies, or so they like to say. Fortunately, the College considers this a good thing, proudly citing statistics about the hundreds of student groups, dozens of theater productions and scores of varsity, club, and intramural sports teams. Recognizing this reality, the Task Force on General Education gave student activities special attention last week in its preliminary report with a proposed “activity-based learning” initiative. The goal? “To help students see how what they learn in class informs what they...