Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will the present Freshman class realize the significance of their dinner to be held tonight. By that time the event will loom up as a unique and irreplaceable occasion. The time necessary for a feeling of class unity to become vivid has not yet elapsed and sheer lack of stimulus may well account for many men neglecting the dinner. But the upper classes know that the Freshman Dinner is one of the last things they would omit from the varied experiences of their college career...
...here, however, that the defect of this 'quality' of individualism becomes manifest. Individualism and fellowship are more or less incompatible, just as individualism in politics is incompatible with democracy. If one is free at Harvard to develop as he pleases; if one does not feel the restraint or the stimulus of a college spirit brought directly to bear on the individual, he is likewise free to play the fool. He is also free to be unutterably lonely. Without knowing it he may suffer a partial atrophy of his best self. If he finds congenial associates, they are most likely...
...late years the University crews have spent the spring recess in Cambridge, except in 1908, when the crew spent a few days at Annapolis. This trip should give a good deal of stimulus to the early season rowing and help develop the speed of the crew over the two-mile course...
...uncomfortable: "The ideal position of athletics in collegiate life is not necessarily that of subordinate interests, in the sense that studies should occupy an undue proportion of the student's time, but that of being correlative to filling in the spaces which study leaves open, and supplying a stimulus fully as necessary to the body as scholastic exercises to the mind...
...action of those in charge of singing at the football games as indicated in the communication printed elsewhere in this issue seems singularly calculated to attain the end desired. Musical composition like all other forms of artistic endeavor does not flourish under competitive stimulus with a set occasion for its object. We may want new songs, but it is doubtful if they can best be obtained in the old way. On the other hand we realize that no amount of enthusiasm on the part of the students singing a song can contribute anywhere nearly as much toward the perfection...