Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Although Royce has a number of disciples who follow his scheme of thought in its essentials, he has a far larger constituency of those who disagreed with him and yet feel that they owe what is best in their thought to his stimulus...
While the society will use only the Grand Prize design in advertising the celebration, a stimulus is given to wide participation in the competition by special prizes for artists, art students, and undergraduates. There is a second prize of $500 and another of $300 for that design which is a public choice. Votes of visitors to the exhibitions will betaken to determine the latter. These exhibitions will be held in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. For the best poster on the advantages of electric light, heat, and power submitted by an art student, the society will award...
...have enrolled to make the Leiter Cup Series practical intimates that baseball enthusiasts are pre-occupied with new interests, or are still in their winter torpor. Considering the immediate success of the new coaching staff, a baseball system similar to the football system may evolve this year. Under this stimulus aspirants for a hand in future puddings might be expected to practice on the Leiter cups. As efficiency is a desirable asset rather than a requirement, of the scrub teams, the restraint of training never forbids a "Leiter cupper" to enter where joy invites. He is a free lance...
...been extended a warm welcome, and his lectures have been received with unusual appreciation. Apparently no effort is being made to bring him to Harvard. "If it is a question of funds," the Bulletin says, "something ought to be done to give our undergraduates the opportunity of encountering the stimulus to be gained from personal contact with one of the truest poets of the time. If it is a question of apathy, or the lack of one functionary whose business it shall be to see that such an opportunity is seized, all the more should propose something be done...
...Mother Advocate says, let us choose a vocation as soon as possible. Procrastination, moreover, will mean not only the loss of an early start up the ladder of success, but it will mean something worse: it will mean the loss of that tremendous stimulus of having a clear destination, a one, single aim. No matter whether the choice be butcher or baker, or candlestick-maker, it is good to determine as soon as possible upon a permanent or even upon a temporary purpose in life. The choice is not only a means; it is an end in itself. E. HOWELL...