Word: extracurricular
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...station; the Holyoke Center was Dudley House for commuters; Hillel was squash courts. JFK Street was Boylston Street, with a Mobil station and Vespa dealer. A vast trolley yard stood where the KSG now stands, and Quincy was under construction. Radcliffe and Harvard shared only classes, and few extracurricular groups were co-ed. Two years after Brown v. Board of Education, we were almost entirely white, disproportionately preppies, and insensitive to both the discomfort of our very few minority classmates and the wider civil rights issues fermenting around the nation...
...next four years, while you’re sitting in your single room, contemplating ways to undercut your friends’ (read: competitors) extracurricular ambitions, these people will have a litany of experiences that are both enriching and rewarding. But wait 10 years and see who’s laughing, when you’ve got your own desk on the 50th floor and they’re off “making a difference,” whatever that means...
...following among the Harvard student body, about 34.5 percent of males and 26.9 percent of females of which self-identify as “binge drinkers” according to a 2002 Harvard College Survey. Regardless of the number of offenders, it should not be treated as just another extracurricular activity, another task at which to excel with all competitive zest. Lest we forget—as we tend to do, after a few beers—binge drinking carries with it a host of not-so-funny and potentially serious consequences...
...even a newspaper that consumed its students’ lives offered equal opportunity to those presented by Harvard. And since Oxbridgians only took exams at the end of the year, they were even freer than Harvard students to throw themselves wholly into college life, sports, and any sort of extracurricular you might imagine. NATHAN A. PAXTON Cambridge, Mass. September 19, 2006 The writer is a resident tutor in Winthrop House and a Ph.D. candidate in the government department...
...which support those who “steal the valedectorians [sic] lunch money in high school,” perhaps we should ask what value those who are at Harvard only for athletics bring. Of course, athletics can be an important part of the admissions equation, mirroring such extracurricular activities as music or student publications, but it should not have a special, exalted status. Giving athletes special advantages for throwing a ball hard or running quickly undermines the meritocracy that the College should strive for in its admissions process.Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Harvard and other institutions need to find...