Word: extracurricular
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...this exuberance, this pride, this community disappears suddenly as the exceedingly ambitious, driven, and self-motivated freshmen get absorbed in their studies, banal extracurricular pursuits, and the demands of quotidian life. For the remainder of the undergraduate tenure, Harvard pride makes a triumphant re-entry only four succeeding times: each year on the weekend before Thanksgiving. For the rest of the time, Harvard students are sometimes critical of, often self-deprecating about, but mostly oblivious to their college’s rich past...
...deserves his spot by his own merit, Harvard students no longer tend to see themselves as partaking in a grand tradition. We all enter the ivy gates interested primarily in those lofty heights to which our diplomas will propel us. And individual tastes and whims—whether academic, extracurricular, or social—are given priority. Harvard school spirit and pride get only what remains, which typically amounts to one weekend in November, spent mostly in a beer-induced haze...
Homi K. Bhabha, a member of the task force and the director of the Humanities Center, said it was too soon to know what direction the committee would take, but he speculated that it would consider the role of the arts both in the extracurricular and curricular realms...
While he or she may set financial priorities, the Dean lacks the ability to dedicate funds to new or improved curricular and extracurricular programs. Unfortunately, the dean, like so many others throughout the University, is often forced into an advisory role and made to impose the decisions of playmakers above him. Though wording may be confusing, the College dean reports not the President, but to the Faculty dean, who then reports to the president on behalf of the dean of the College...
...Tender Bender,” and “Gluteus to my Ears,” you couldn’t help but feel like you were a fifth-grader learning the parts of the body—or in medical school, attending a particularly eccentric extracurricular performance.Either way, the audience should have been notified of the prerequisite for attending the performance—a knowledge of muscular anatomy. Such knowledge would have been the only way to make sense of the extensive nomenclature that was thrown at the audience during the performance. But the alien-sounding names ended...