Word: extras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ahead to the time when many of the more responsible undergraduate positions may have become paid jobs. The loss of glamor in the high places and the growing proclivity of students to study are evident today. Must the assurance of pay counteract these forces to keep life in the extra-curricular work in the University...
...plays with Batchelder and A. W. Huguley '31 doing most of the carrying, the ball was put over for the second and last score of the afternoon. Huguley made the touchdown on a line buck from the four yard line. Putnam's kick again failed to chalk up the extra point...
...effort to remove some of the burdens of extra-curricular activities from seniors might well prove a constructive move and obviously has much to recommend it. Senior year is a crucial period scholastically, and clearly the more free seniors are from outside interests, the more opportunity they will have to study. Furthermore, from the point of view of the activities themselves, it seems quite logical to expect that juniors, if less imminently pressed by studies, may find it easier to devote to other activities the time required. Thus a general introduction of such policies might be expected to benefit both...
...recent notice posted by the secretary of the Harvard Law School reminds Law School men of a long-standing regulation that no law student is to take part in any University extra-curriculum activity not directly connected with the study...
...other side of a picture of decreasing college interest in non-academic activities is unveiled in the statements accompanying Dean Pound's disapproval of engagement in such interests by students of the Law School, where membership in a single extra-curricular organization is found to impede scholastic work dangerously. The undergraduate, doubtless endowed with more leisure than his elder brethren, prefers to devote himself to Widener and his classes; the graduate, in an atmosphere already charged with academic responsibility, drops from grace through the endeavor to add a number not already on his crowded program...