Word: extracurriculars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reinforcement from others. Thus, providers of televised learning, including the Open University, have found it necessary to offer tutorials, advising, periods of residency and other devices that give more structure and human contact in contact order to sustain motivation. In addition living with other young people and participating in extracurricular activities not only give pleasure, they contribute much to students' learning and to their tolerance for other points of view, their sense of responsibility, their social and emotional maturity. Apart from these benefits, the years spent living in a university afford to many people an enjoyable experience they would...
...whose contact with students should extend beyond the closed-door meetings of the mysterious Administrative Board and the limited forum of student-faculty committees, attended regularly by but a select few Undergraduate Council members. More than a dean of students, whose primary job at this school is to oversee extracurricular activities, the dean of the College at Harvard oversees housing, advising and counseling, discipline, athletics--the entirety of the Harvard experience outside of the classroom. Part of that job is taking an active interest in what undergraduates are doing, thinking, and saying, tasks which the current dean has done only...
...stressed to reporter James Solomon, the Senior Gift was created for the purpose of supporting undergraduate education. It helps meet current operating expenses of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and is used to fund undergraduate financial aid, the House system, faculty salaries, extracurricular, and other undergraduate programs. The Senior Gift's scholarship gifts directly assist the 41 percent of undergraduates who receive financial and from Harvard and Radcliffe, helping to ensure that the College maintains a need-blind admissions policy...
House population should approximate a microcosm of the college population. It is a given that Harvard largely impersonal place. Except in their Houses, students usually are exposed only to students with similar academic and extracurricular interests. Only the House can bring together students of different backrounds and interests. This contact is crucial to the so called Harvard experience. With a more equal distribution of students among the Houses, the quality of undergraduate life at Harvard will improve, giving students valuable experience will survive long after graduation...
There is nothing in the proposed four-page document that warranted sending a 22-page explanatory memo to the entire Faculty, which Spence took the extraordinary step of doing last week. ROTC's so-called "extracurricular" status, mandated by the 1969 Faculty repudiation of the organization, is not threatened. Nor is anyone proposing that ROTC return to Harvard. Indeed, there is some doubt as to whether one or more of the services could even be induced to return, should Harvard make such an unlikely request. High cost, a large number of ROTC units in the Boston area, and the memory...