Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...important speaking trip will prevent ex-President Taft from speaking to members of the University two weeks hence on the League of Nations will disappoint very many students who hoped to hear him. Students, in fact most people in the country, are in need of just such a stimulus...
...Harvard--as is the case in all American colleges--there is little real stimulus for high intellectual achievement. A Phi Beta Kappa key is the only incentive, and, in general, this is accessible only to men with an unusual ability for cataloging and remembering facts. The student who lacks enthusiasm for Phi Beta Kappa turns his attention to some college activity other than scholarship where he is stimulated by what he feels to be real competition. These activities, although they offer valuable experience, are not--can never be, a substitute for scholastic work...
...level in such a way that the largest number may derive the most benefit. We are lowering the standard to a level that will enable men of mediocre ability to attain these positions without undue effort on their part and we are removing to a very large extent the stimulus of intense competition upon which all achievement must in the last analysis, be based. Once remove the idea of competition from your undergraduate activities and the sooner you remove the activities themselves the better, for their incalculable value lies almost wholly in competition...
...longer does the uncertainty of the chaotic struggle in Europe provide active stimulus for the purchase of bonds. To subscribe the loan new methods have been invoked, and the government has created a splendid business proposition. The canvassers have began their active campaign, and the final drive is in full swing. Harvard will fill her quota, but to accomplish this every man must buy his bonds. And in order to relieve the uncertainty of the closing days of the loan it is desirable to subscribe as soon as possible. Buy early...
Just why to opposition go to the Harvard Magazine should go to such extremes is an unsolvable query. The Magazine competes only with the Advocate which should welcome the stimulus of such healthy rivalry. Undergraduate literature has been decadent since the college days of Aiken and Hagedorn and any revitalization is to be heartily welcomed...