Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of the Bureau of Business Research is going on with added stimulus this year. J. N. van der Voort G.B. '15 has been working with the corps since he graduated from the Graduate School of Business Administration last year and Lawrence 3 has been added to the office quarters...
...urge the undergraduate, however, to a more serious life does not promise much. The scholarship groups and prizes undoubtedly have considerable effect as a stimulus. But on the other hand, the lax requirements in certain courses, requirements which can be technically satisfied by nominal effort, actually promote slip-shod work. In some of the more advanced courses especially the theory in force is that of allowing wide choice and initiative as regards reading. Sometimes this reading is not tested, and the students' word is taken as sufficient evidence that it has been adequately done. Without wishing to attack student honor...
...conversation need not be "sissy." It need not be high-brow. It may abound in swear words and lines with a double meaning. Is there any reason why conversation cannot show intelligent effort of the mind? Is there any reason why meal times cannot be a period of intellectual stimulus...
...graduates of Harvard have been connected with the State Hospital, or War Departments of the various nations involved. More particularly, and in greater numbers, have they seen such service in France. My personal experience in Europe covers only the months of April, May, and June, 1915, but the stimulus received was perhaps sufficient to carry well back over the entire course of the catastrophe. Once the game was on, the American Embassy in Paris became one of the busiest places in Europe, on it having devolved the care of those citizens of all the nations fighting against the French, still...
...open itself to the outside world. As it is, such opportunities are only too rare, and come late in college life. If it were not for the singing, there would be small excuse for a mere "blow out"; on the other hand, the incidental pleasures only serve as further stimulus for the choral work...