Word: regularizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first point emphasized by alumni reminiscing over their college careers is the importance of extra-curricular activities in the world of business. Unquestionably the tendency to judge graduates in search of jobs on their outside connections fully as much as on their regular scholastic record is increasing each year. Rightly or wrongly, the employer of today is likely to be just as much interested in the ability and predominance of his prospective employee in non-academic pursuits--ranging from, say, his extra-curricular American History study to his record on the athletic field, stage, or publication...
Extra-curricular activities, however, cannot be totally separated from academic pursuits. A strong indication of this is the emphasis placed on this subject in scholarship applications. No less than four questions on the National Scholarship applications are devoted to this theme, and also on the regular scholarship applications, the student's outside program is one of the most carefully scrutinized questions. Activities plus high grades have proven to be the ideal scholarship combination. But probably most important of all is the immeasurable social benefit to be derived from working as a member of some team or organization. These social contacts...
Voting a total of $520 in the form of aids to 14 undergraduates, the Student Council completed the largest assignment of scholarship money in recent years at its regular meeting last night. The sum voted for the present year now totals...
...begin with, he holds the Harvard and pool records in the 50, 100, and 220, having set times that are dangerously near world records. By the end of this year's regular season he had been beaten but four times in his swimming career, not counting the Olympics. These were the finals of the N. C. A. A. 50 in 1936, the finals of the N. A. A. U. 100 in 1937, the 440 in the 1937 Yale meet, and the match race of 150 yards with Bill Kendall, and in all of these races he came in second...
...publishes weekly reports fully as baffling to the average citizen as a doctor's statistics on blood pressure. Last week the Federal Reserve Board reported an increase of $65,000,000 in the total of money in circulation ($6,394,000,000) whereas $24,000,000 is the regular rise for that time of the year...