Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...crew leaves for New London. The crew labors under the one great disadvantage that its training can not be followed by the mass of the students, whose interest in its progress and ultimate success must be in large part taken for granted. The men who row have not the stimulus of applause, or of frequent contests. Their work must be done alone, and is arduous in the extreme. They. more than any other athletic team, do disinterested service to the University. That it is not unappreciated, this afternoon's send-off must show...
They will not have the stimulus that Harvard has in the fear of losing the game altogether, but there should be need of no greater stimulus than the gentlemanly resolution to play gentlemanly football. If Harvard and Yale gentlemen cannot now conclusively demonstrate their ability to meet as such on the football field, they will justly forfeit the privilege...
...believe that this change would prove a decided stimulus to the religious activity of the men in college...
...Intercollegiate contests are advantageous. - (a) A stimulus to general participation. - (b) They develop college patriotism. - (c) They bring the colleges into closer relations with each other...
...enter with very strong athletic propensities, and too often with correspondingly weak interest in intellectual pursuits. It becomes the work of the college not to develop right ideals, but to cultivate them; not to broaden the field in which mental activity has to play, but to furnish the first stimulus to any real mental activity at all. Obviously there is here a serious incongruity between the desirable and the necessary in a college education, and the fault lies with the students themselves. By their devotion to athletics they give to the school boy just the stimulus which he least needs...