Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...three hours an afternoon for a major or minor sport, but who can dash into a centrally located gymnasium for forty-five minutes to keep bodies tuned up to intellectual tasks. This is precisely the group of men who most need regular daily exercise, who derive the most direct stimulus from it, and to whom the college most owes an accommodation which indirectly redounds to its own advantage in their increased efficiency in later years. The institution at Cambridge is a large one a 'university' more truly than we are apt to remember, and the misconception of Harvard athletics which...
...commendable plan of a tri-collegiate prize to be instituted by the literary magazines of Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The CRIMSON has more than once advocated the establishment of a literary prize to be competed for by undergraduates of Harvard and Yale, and has pointed out that the stimulus of competition resulting would do a great deal to raise the standard of literary endeavor in both colleges. The tri-partite competition now planned should stimulate even keener rivalry and call out contributions of distinct merit. The conspicuous defect in American undergraduate life today is the lack of intellectual exercise...
...going on today in the University, no event is of greater importance to Freshmen than their elections. Again, the system for Freshman nominations which was inaugurated last year has given satisfaction, and it stands as one of the splendid accomplishments of the Student Council. In Freshman, enthusiasm needs no stimulus, but today, at the beginning of their organized class life we urge the men of 1916 to maintain throughout an unselfish interest in the affairs of their class and to strive continually for class solidarity...
...close connection between investigation and instruction: the teachers not only impart traditional knowledge, but they are themselves occupied in discovering new facts and increasing the intellectual possessions of mankind. Thus the auditor is introduced into the very midst of scientific work and from this he obtains the strongest stimulus. Closely connected with this is the slight value attached to examinations in German universities. Continually is it impressed upon the minds of the students that they should work not for the examinations but for the expansion of their own intellect...
...remedy for this, and as a possible stimulus to debating in the entire University, the CRIMSON would suggest a series of inter-department debates. Under this scheme, members of all the graduate schools would have the opportunity to meet the men of the College and could also debate among themselves. The selection of subjects might be so arranged as not to give the members of any one team an undue advantage by assigning a subject, the study of which falls within its own department. We feel that this system would arouse a spirit of rivalry among the departments and would...