Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strictly Extra-Curricular...
First announced by President Conant in his Report for 1935-1936, the work of the faculty Committee on the Extra-Curricular Study of American History has been steadily expanded. The Raiding List, prepared by the Committee and published by the University in 1937, has attracted widespread attention; more than six thousand copies have been mailed out in response to inquiries from persons not connected with the University...
Officials emphasize the point that the modified system is felt to be better suited to many students, and that "the extra course should not be regarded as a penalty but as another way of approaching the same educational...
...University makes no charge for the extra course, except when the undergraduate lacks a course credit because of previous failure. Because members of the class of 1939 have previously aranged their courses, less stringent application of the extra course rule has been made in some instances...
...tiger, a hyena and a baboon. He put his 75 employees to work setting up the big top in a vacant lot next door, invited 10,000 poor children to come as his guests for "hot dogs, pink lemonade, popcorn and everything else that goes with a circus." Three extra platforms had to be set up outside the tent to hold the entertainers who offered free assistance. This week, among a jampacked, wildly cheering crowd of children, Mr. Meitus wandered happily, chortled: "Boy, am I havin...