Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continue during Junior and Senior year with their tutors just as at present. Such men should be designated distinctly and separated from the rest of the College. All others should be officially dropped from the tutorial system, assigned to an adviser, and most important, be required to take an extra course for a degree...
This delay has often caused loss of interest in scholastic work, due, in large measure, to a new absorption in the relatively more entertaining field of extra-curricular activities. In itself this cannot be deplored except in that the former scholastic drive often remains dormant even after the first-year rules have been lifted and the signal is set to go ahead. Extra-curricular interests such as publications, instrumental clubs, debating, the Glee Club and the like can become extremely absorbing and books and scholastic requirements are easily pushed to one side till some later date; a date which grows...
...other beneficial effect, the widening of Plan B will at least prevent this unnecessary diverting of the interest of the really advanced freshmen into purely extra-curricular channels. However, taken in its broader light, one can read the beginning of the end of the fallacious system of entrance examinations and the dawning of a day when the general development of a student at his preparatory school will be accepted as a major factor in determining his fitness for admission. This day will undoubtedly come, and it can be safely forecast that the recent action of the Faculty Council has done...
...Washington Naval Treaty expires at midnight Dec. 31, 1936. Until that time no signatory nation may lay a keel in violation of treaty limits. Viscount Monsell announced last week that between now and then the Admiralty will assemble machinery, gun mountings, hull materials for an extra-Treaty armada whose keels may thus be legitimately laid next New Year's day. Proposed new tonnage included...
More significant to standard U. S. railroading is the development of better service on regular trains. Having long since taken the extra-fare charge off its crack all-Pullman Los Angeles Limited, U. P. will next week begin operating The Challenger between Chicago and Los Angeles. Composed of both "tourist sleepers" (old Pullmans) and coaches, The Challenger will run as a second section of the Los Angeles Limited, make precisely the same time. Fare and Pullman on the Los Angeles Limited between Chicago and Los Angeles is $82.28. Coach fare on The Challenger between the same points will...