Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Classical department had previously put upon the stage. It would doubtless lead to a quickening of interest in the entire English play literature of the period to which Ben Jonson belonged; and to this literature it would lend a character of reality which would be the best possible stimulus to students in the Department of English. It would be the intention of the department to have the play in every detail of its presentation an exact reproduction of the original. Their attempt, in its full extent, would be the first of its sort, and so peculiarly deserving of success...
...many can tell, off-hand, where John Harvard died? Do they ever realize that British troops were quartered in Massachusetts and Harvard, that Washington probably visited those buildings many times, that Lafayette was received by President Kirkland on the steps of University? . . . Certainly much interest and charm, and much stimulus to high thought and noble life are lost to the students at Harvard who never wake to the fact that it is their privilege to pass three or four years amid scenes dignified by the recollection of great men. . . . The associations, many of them priceless, are here...
...December number of the Graduates' Magazine contains some very pointed remarks on the absence about the college of any memorial tablets to mark places of historic interest. As the writer says, "Certainly much interest and charm, and much stimulus to high thought and noble life, are lost to the students at Harvard who never wake to the fact that it is their privilege to pass three or four years amid scenes dignified by the recollections of great...
...under the superintendence of the college. With the opening of the new year the baseball team, freshman crew, and track athletic team will begin work in the new gymnasium. The gymnasium is one of the finest in the country and its acquisition will no doubt be a great stimulus to athletics at Columbia...
...announcement that Harvard will send an athletic team to the indoor games of the New England Association, ought to act as an effective stimulus to the men who are now trying for the Mott Haven team. The management wish it to be distinctly understood that the men will be chosen from the quality of work which is shown from now on to the time of the games. Those who are clearly promising men in their respective distances will doubtless find a place on the team. To appear, then, at his best a man cannot be too careful in his method...