Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to these factors, each House judges its applicants on their extra-curricular activities, including athletics; their personality; reports from Freshman advisers, where available; and the number of acquaintances in the House applied for. The last is exceedingly important, and a large number of letters of recommendation from men already in the House pays off when admission lists are made...
...plunging into danger twice as fast between 45 and 55, as we were between 35 and 45. ... It's the extra D. U. that gets...
Many things a Pope can do which are denied to other men. One thing which Pope Pius XII could not do last week-so it was reported-was to get 50 extra tickets for his own coronation in St. Peter's Basilica. For before last Sunday, when the coronation was performed with pomp befitting the first such occasion since the Vatican again became a temporal state in 1929, some 71,000 tickets to St. Peter's had been distributed, and six times as many applications had been turned down...
...Tallahassee. With the self mortifying zeal of Simon Stylites (since the News is in the middle of the corrupt business which it is trying to clean up) it has told of Yale's perverted passion for "campus prestige." Everyone, we are informed, dives into the rough-and-tumble for extra-curricular honors. No place at Yale for the lonely stag, the wall flower; every man has to make his "Y" in something or other. Studies can ride--they're not important. But the canker is even more loathsome than this; for almost every "activities" man is living...
Having received the benediction of Dean Chase and President Conant, the Radio Workshop is now well launched on its official career. In the last fifty years no Harvard extra-curricular project has given such promise of future significance; incorporating as it does some of the best brains--faculty and undergraduate--in the University's English, Music, Government and Physics departments, it presages an era of Harvard leadership in the development of radio technique which may well parallel the ascendancy of Professor George Baker's 47 Workshop in the field of the drama...