Word: extracurricular
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...Lewis ’68 wrote in this week’s edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. “Harvard teaches students but does not make them wise,” he wrote. “They may achieve extraordinary excellence in both academic and extracurricular endeavors, but the whole educational experience does not cohere.” The article, adapted from a part of the conclusion to Lewis’ upcoming book, “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” is the first and only excerpt that will...
...daily basis suggests that perhaps randomization was not the wisest method of achieving these goals. In fact, it may have even been counterproductive. In many cases, once students enter the Houses—rather than happily intermingling with everyone in the house, sharing insights on cultural and extracurricular experiences—they are likely to be content with socializing within the tiny insular unit of their blocking group. And if anyone does bother to venture outside that special group of eight or less, it’s probably to another House to visit the other people they wanted to live...
...completely Caucasian,” said Frommer, a government concentrator from Chicago.Frommer might have stood out at the group’s meetings, but on Harvard’s campus, she epitomizes a trend—undergraduates who are crossing traditional ethnic lines in their extracurricular choices.Joseph A. Pace ’06, a social studies concentrator from Dallas, is the former vice president of the Society of Arab Students. But, Pace said, “I’m actually Jewish. I don’t have a drop of Arab in me.”The Chinese Student...
...into the profile of typical college students. But he’s been talking to the institutions considering his application, trying to arrange for solutions—such as living in graduate housing—that might make the adjustment process a little easier.As for extracurricular activities, Cheek wants to get involved in organizations dealing with youth activism in politics. The ever-increasing power of communication inspires him, and he has some ideas about the centralization of student lobbying that he wants to develop.But when it comes to athletics, the Olympic medalist avers that he won?...
...some students say that, when cross-ethnic relationships become romantic rather than just extracurricular, they must break through stereotypes and often endure parental disapproval...