Word: extracurricular
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...Havana on the Harbor cruise—are never repeated. John and Annie understand that the only way to stop wasting money is to get the UC out of the social planning business altogether by dissolving the failed Campus Life Committee and redistributing its money by increasing funding for extracurricular groups, House Committees (HoCos), and parties...
...that the organization had not yet taken a stance on the issue, but noted that there is a perception that “general academic motivation and rigor has gone down” among HBS students.“The consensus is that people are valuing social, networking, and extracurricular activities, rather than gaining general management skills,” he added.HBS is not the only top business school reexamining its grade disclosure policy. Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, and the University of Pennsylvania?...
Visiting students, especially the visiting freshmen from Tulane—who have no college experiences outside Harvard, have made their friendships here, and know few people at Tulane—have been indistinguishable from other students; they are rowers, cheerleaders, and members of our classes and extracurricular clubs. In short, they are valuable members of the Harvard community, despite their nominal visiting-student status. Forcing them to leave after their first semester of freshman year—effectively kicking them off campus—will irreparably damage their college experiences and disrupt the community here. And letting visiting students stay...
...What set them apart is that they knew why they wanted to be secretary and treasurer and knew what they could most contribute to the jobs.” Members of the class committee said that Borden was chosen in part for her extensive involvement in extracurricular life at Harvard. The president of Women in Business, she is also involved in Delta Gamma, a campus sorority, and the Charles River Growth Fund, an investment group. “You often hear that the best thing about Harvard is the people, and that was really true...
...public sphere because of their passive natures. They are the ones who need this idea of a natural community most and are also the least likely to get it—hence, perhaps, our substantial rate of depression. Maybe this is also why Harvard students turn to extracurricular activities with such a vengeance (it’s not just résumé building): they do it to find the community not available in the Houses, which have let them down...