Word: extracurricularly
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...convincing explanation for why Lewis was not considered suitable for the new role. Nor will they. For Lewis was a man who was never afraid to ruffle feathers—and with his spirited defense of the potential roles at Harvard for varsity athletics and other areas of extracurricular pursuit, he seems to have angered the wrong people for his own self-preservation. Certainly, numerous University Hall sources have detailed serious disagreements between Lewis and Summers. Although neither man will yet confirm this to be true, one cannot escape the nagging fear that a personality clash has resulted...
...common lament heard resounding through Massachusetts Hall, is that all these problems would simply disappear if students paid as much attention to their academics as they did to their extracurricular activities. Indeed, it is all too common for students to report that extracurriculars are the most valuable aspect of their Harvard experience, and be content with what is now a gentleman’s B+ average. But the curricular review is not simply about shifting around the burden of lackluster courses. It must create a framework in which more stimulating interaction and bold thinking is fostered. The review...
...fated “Mather Lather”—the foam party which attracted more than a thousand undergraduates to Mather House’s inadequately-sized dining hall—acts as any indication, Harvard students are looking for more than stimulating classes and enriching extracurricular activities...
...despite the administration’s support for football and enhanced emphasis on extracurricular activity, Conant met in 1951 with Yale President A. Whitney Griswold and Princeton President Harold W. Dodds to discuss restraining the expansion of intercollegiate athletics. The Statement of Scholarship Policy would lay the groundwork for the formal code of the Ivy Group in 1954, particularly the Ivy commitment to amateur sports...
...self-described “grind” as an undergraduate, Mansfield eschewed extracurricular activities in favor of studying...