Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freshman program for extra-curricular studies opens in the Union common room tonight when Howard M. Jones delivers a short, informal talk to interested candidates in all fields of concentration...
President Conant's plan for increasing interest in American History among the undergraduate body, and even outside the University's walls, has taken a new step forward with the appointment of a Counselor on extra-curricular reading in this field. This Counselor is to pay particular attention to Freshmen. It is just this group which most urgently needs some officer to foster an interest in a knowledge of our culture and civilization--a knowledge which can be pursued in spare time throughout the remaining three years of college, and which will be a bulwark in later life, comparable...
Appointment of a "Counselor on the Extra-Curricular Reading in American History" for Freshmen was announced today by Howard Mumford Jones, Professor of English, chairman of the American History committee...
Daniel H. Aaron, Assistant in English, is to hold the new post, with office hours in the Union from 2 to 5 o'clock on Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning this week. He will act in an unofficial tutorial capacity for all Freshmen interested in the extra-curricular reading of American History, whether or not they intend to take the Bliss prize examinations...
Regardless of its wrong assumptions about President Conant's annual report, the Cambridge Union of Teachers has made one thing clear. No official report which will obviously attract wide publicity and public reaction should be issued without extra care that there are no ambiguous statements. Misinterpretation of any public state-men is easy, and twisting the meaning of veiled educational proclamations is easier. Although many in the University are still puzzled and confused by President Conant's report, few can possibly believe that by "limitation" Mr. Conant meant a drastic curtailment of enrollment in all colleges. Naturally...