Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...vision is the requisite of valor or moral courage. The world is filled with men gifted with a divine power of vision, but who lack the valor that is necessary to put what they have seen to some use. What would Theodore Roosevelt have been worth without the moral stimulus which prompted his determination to "make the world over"? There are hosts of men who have failed to achieve all that they might have because they lacked this very necessary attribute of true greatness. The vision to see, and the valor to be,--this twofold quality is the secret...
...realize is indefinite; its success may not always be assured. Yet despite all this, it possesses political and psychological advantages of undoubted merit. Where the public, already crushed by the tax-collector's demands, would not stand any increase in taxation, it gladly buys bonds. There is no better stimulus than a Liberty Loan campaign for arousing patriotic spirit and putting the whole nation behind the wheel of war. Bonds have their serious limitations, but they stir the popular imagination...
...Navy worry about the U boats. If we object too strongly to submarines we had best enlist and fight them with guns, not loiter around and fight with words. The Germans considered the Scarborough vandalism a victory and they soon found out that it was merely acting as a stimulus for British recruiting. If the same takes place here, the U boats' journey will have been well worth while...
...alumni. The colleges of the country have conspicuously shown themselves to be centres of the strongest influence relating to the war. The feeling and action they have inpired in their active members, teachers and taught, is a contagious spirit. A more intimate knowledge of its workings is a stimulus of high potency for its former members, who in their turn may bring to it from their diverse pursuits a quickening influence of their own. The Alumni Bulletin...
...What "kind of men have we among those who play an important part in public affairs? We have business men who find it necessary, in order to call forth the most efficient exercise of their capabilities in service,-note that word,-to their country, to work under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public indignation. Dean Gay admitted this failing when he recently advocated unrestricted profiteering. We have business men who persistently oppose schemes for national saving on a large scale,-such as discontinuance of the purchase of non-essentials,-because it would...