Author: G. Morris Smith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-22

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780282863135

Excerpt from Susquehanna University Studies, 1936, Vol. 1 A frequently expressed explanation for the academic failure Of many college students is the excessive participation in extracurricular activities. Whenever a college faculty sits in solemn conclave for the purpose of devising ways and means to raise the scholastic standing of certain students or to salvage some academic wrecks, usually the first thing proposed is a curtailment of out-of-class activities. Athletic sports, choral societies, bands and orchestras, language clubs, and the like are quite generally acknowledged to be inimical to scholastic achieve ments. The logic of the argument presupposes that the time and energy usually devoted to extracurricular activities will be given over to classroom preparation in those cases where a curtailment is made mandatory. In short, it is assumed that the student with no extracurricular activities will devote all the time to lesson preparation that his roommate devotes to clubs and orchestras. Is this popular notion true to fact? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.