Word: extracurricularly
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...Another factor is the tendency of athletes to overtrain, overstrain. "Athletic heart" is a frequent result, particularly among runners. Still another factor is the intelligence of present-day honor men. They are no longer bookworms, grinds, recluses. They are expected to. and do, take active part in collegiate activities, extracurricular and even extramural. Their alert intelligence guides them through a temperate life regime...
...decline of the sort of extracurricular devotion that puts men on three publications and numerous athletic teams is so obvious in college today as to need no elucidation to a college audience, but it has not been properly understood in many private schools. High schools, owing to the decentralization of personnel and their largely vocational nature, have not suffered from this misinterpretation of college life, principally through the accident of an only distant connection with it. By their very refusal to focus their entire attention on college preparation, the high schools have unwittingly avoided mistakes. By their diversity of purpose...
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...perhaps, to be regretted that the cultural and religious training of a still younger generation hereabouts must suffer through the failure of the student body to give sufficient response to the appeal of the Brooks House. But to the demands of nearly all the extracurricular activities, with the significant exception of the theatre, the opera, and the buying of books, has the response been similarly passive. And the conditions which are responsible for this seeming apathy can hardly be regretted, for they are the vindication of scholastic independence. If the answer to the call of the Phillips Brooks House...
...will be followed by Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Kelley and President Lowell. There will also be speeches by graduate editors and summaries of the year's work. The dinner, which is the formal occasion for the inauguration into office of a new board, is one of the traditions of extracurricular activity at the University...