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...academics are not the sole focus of the summer program. Students are encouraged to participate in extracurricular activities ranging from field hockey to pretzel-making, Mead said...
...according to the market research firm Mintel. As many a besieged parent can attest, children's marketing seems to be raining down everywhere, from the Internet to video games to coloring books. And with kids increasingly splitting their time among all manner of media, not to mention extracurricular activities, "marketers are targeting children younger and younger in every way they can," says James McNeal, a children's marketing consultant based in College Station, Texas...
...summer will provide no respite for McLoughlin. On May 21, McLoughlin and Kidd spent a day off-site rewriting the Handbook for Student Organizations. This fall, McLoughlin will sit on a committee of administrators, students and faculty which will reevaluate Harvard’s extracurricular policies...
...curricular review report, which recommended the adoption of this calendar, suggested that the mini-term could be dedicated to classes or other curricular and extracurricular pursuits...
Even at a school where students regularly load themselves down with extracurricular commitments, Bosco and the other ROTC midshipmen have had to take on some exceptional tasks. During the year he had to wake up early twice weekly for 7:15 a.m. military science courses at MIT—which covered subjects ranging from military bearing to naval engineering—and sometimes he woke up even earlier for physical training (PT) with the marine midshipmen...