Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, such grand vistas have been opened in the educational landscape by this scheme that every effort should be made to preserve these, even at the expense of painting over other original aims. There are three separate and distinct aspects to the American Civilization Plan. First is its extra-curricular nature. This looks toward the inculcation of a habit of self-education in students, toward the provision of a "key to future education" which would make learning a life-long process. Second is its subject matter. This is American history in the broadest sense--cultural, scientific, and economic as well...
...made some striking contributions: a notable reading list in history, a series of brilliant lectures, a group of earnest scholars who have enriched the Harvard community. Yet it has had meagre success in the attainment of a primary goal, which was to lure students into the realms of extra-curricular study, to inoculate them with the virus of self-education...
...sacrificing the first aim, the last two can still be salvaged. As a purely voluntary scheme, the Plan has failed because students refuse to take time off from their other college activities, curricular or extra-curricular. But it could be made to work if it were taken off a voluntary basis, if an inducement were added to lure students into its fold...
These men have the opportunity to join the troupe permanently, with the prospect of larger parts next season, but at present the best extra's part is that of a gloomy individual who carries a bier. Among the extras are: Lathrop M. Forbush '39, Lester D. Berger 40, Arnold W. Frutkin '40, Alvin W. Shutzer '40, Peter H. Solomon '40, Waldo H. Stewart '40, John A. Waldo '40, Norman W. Getsinger '41, Kingdon W. Swayne '41, Richard M. Wagner '41, and William H. Lowe...
...radio alarms day by day in reassuring and sometimes lyric New Yorkese is usually that of ruddy, greying Captain John George Stein, head of the bureau, 36 years a policeman and the No. 1 expert in his field. One day last week expert Captain Stein took a few minutes extra over WNYC to list his findings on why girls leave home...