Word: extras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present. Henry Chauncy in the office of the Dean of Yale College summed up the current view by declaring co-education at Yale is not now feasible. An undergraduate education involves more than just providing classes and dormitories, he pointed out, but also health services, athletic facilities, and extra-curricular activities. Whereas the College does have two new colleges which could serve as dormitories for women students, it could not provide the other elements in an undergraduate education. "It is in the nature of women to have more problems than men," another administrator remarked...
...numerous and complicated, and the results are almost catastrophic, in my opinion, for the continued good health of undergraduate education at Yale," Thomas C. Mendenhall, Master of Berkeley College and Smith's president-elect, wrote in 1953. "When the student's original academic obligation and his self-imposed extra-curricular demands are added to the mixture, the effects of this weekending are far reaching and, I think, disastrous," he added...
...both graduate and undergraduate students, and the only problem, Judy Fiorello of Vassar remarked, "is having enough time to go out with a boy a second time." Another girl, a lithe brunette, computed that she had an average of five different dates a week. Few girls participate in Yale extra-curricular activities. "Most of our spare time is taken up in dates," a pretty blonde noted...
...came in the 'thirties. The depression gave numerous opportunities to sport with President A. Lawrence Lowell. Distressed to note that the 1931 Harvard-Army football game was to be played at the Cadets' small field, Mayor Curley pressed President Lowell to move the game to Yankee Stadium, with the extra proceeds going to the City of Boston for its unemployed. When Lowell protested that a Harvard team could play only on a college field, Curley arranged for Boston College to play Holy Cross at Harvard Stadium on Thanksgiving. With an undefeated record, Barry Wood's team had just been defeated...
...days, before the College System was introduced in the thirties, the fraternities were active in undergraduate life. They were extra-curricular centers for debating, sports, drama and service work, and the brothers lived together in them. But today these functions have been lost to the colleges and extracurricular groups, and the fraternities linger on as a questionable indulgence, confining themselves to meals, dances and liquor...