Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Here was certainly a full and varied life, responsive to many personal moods and many tides of public feeling. Lowell drew intellectual stimulus from enormously wide reading in classical and modern literatures. Puritanically earnest by inheritance, he seems also to have inherited a strain of levity which he could not always control, and, through his mother's family, a dash of mysticism sometimes resembling second sight. His physical and mental powers were not always in the happiest mutual adjustment: he became easily the prey of moods and fancies, and knew the alternations from wild gaiety of spirits to black despair...
...ineligibility of the former officers made them impartial nominators while their wide acquaintance tends to create confidence in their choice. It would give a candidate too great an advantage if but one were proposed, while if the former officers named three, the class would be robbed of a stimulus for nominating men by petition since three candidates are the required number for each office. Thus two seems to be the proper number for the initial selection. A move will be made in time to allow the members of the class to draw up any number of petitions...
...case this stimulus produces no reaction, the class is in no position to object to the candidates the former officers may nominate. At least the proposed system will give the class an opportunity to investigate the qualifications of its future leaders and to substitute others if desired. The classes will soon be given an opportunity to act upon the Student Council's recommendation and the CRIMSON confidently trusts that it will be accepted...
...What a happy rallying event for British university men this will be, and doubly so for American students still in foreign service. Beyond that, the relationship between Britain and the United States would be strengthened, athletics as a whole would receive a stimulus, as also the Rhodes scholarships, and scholarships in general through a bringing together of British and American students for an interchange of ideas at a most auspicious event." Yale News...
...view that the physical development of large numbers of men is of greater importance than the defeat of Harvard and Princeton, but we feel that a series of defeats at their hands would quickly make clear the need of victory for its own sake and for its general stimulus to sport as a whole. --Yale News...