Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representatives of 16 undergraduate organizations preface fall membership drives with a mass meeting at 7:30 o' clock tonight in Phillips Brooks House where the why and wherefores of college extracurricular activities will be explained in detail to incoming students...
...Weather Ahead. Postwar Oxford's swollen enrollment is now giving Lewis too much to do to spare him time for extracurricular writing. During the "long vac" this summer he has been hard at work on his volume for "Oh-Hell," which is Oxford's name for the Oxford History of English Literature (still in preparation). During the college year ahead, in addition to his crowded lectures, he will also be busy "tooting" his 18-odd tutorial pupils. At regular intervals they will come, singly or in pairs, to read him their essays in his handsome, white-paneled college...
...more." From then on he was Franklin Roosevelt's man. On one occasion, Roosevelt called him "America's spiritual ambassador of good will" to front-line troops of all the Allies. His son, Clark, was one of the U.S. chaplains killed in World War II.* His latest extracurricular activity: membership in President Truman's committee on universal military training...
...been under scrutiny. The veteran majority has worked hard and played hard. On the surface it has been calm, but underneath there has been an unusually tense competition for scholastic honors. While there has been little of the goldfish-swallowing type of revelry, interest in almost every field of extracurricular activity has been high. Activities which lapsed during the war have been revived. And while Dean-elect Bender and others have frequently pointed out the egocentric nature of the present undergraduates, they have at least been individually conscious of the significance of events outside the college sphere...
...supervised the big task of moving schools and universities from the coast to the interior, away from the Japanese. But while Chen encouraged practical subjects (a country at war needs engineers), he cut down on history, economics and politics. His advice to students: study-quietly and make no trouble. Extracurricular activities disappeared, except for Chiang's San Min Chu I Youth Group, a movement for training the young in hsiao and cheng, and in such un-Chinese pastimes as swimming. The Education Ministry started a bureau to "guide the thoughts and control the actions" of students, abroad as well...