Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will undoubtedly recommend itself to the best class of our students: all will want to read it; but whether all will buy it or not, time alone can determine. Harvard is notoriously inferior to Yale in the support of such interests, and our college pride needs some stronger stimulus than statements about what Yale has accomplished. We sincerely hope that the Echo will receive the patronage that it deserves, and we extend to its enterprising editors our best wishes for their success...
...successful essayist without asking questions or requiring awkward confessions, it is difficult to see why it would not be well to encourage general scholarship in precisely the same way. In the case of "bread studies," the hope of the solid gain to which they lead makes other stimulus unnecessary. But a college wishing to compete with them in securing young men of the first promise may properly offer some recompense for that exceptional cultivation which is more likely to benefit the community than to advance the fortunes of the individual...
...must incur the cost of studying a profession, and will have a mother and sisters dependent upon him for support. It is needless to multiply illustrations to show that restricted scholarships may give no encouragement to students who have most to contend with, and who most need their stimulus...
...induced to break away from the temptations to idleness which beset them, and succeed in winning money which they do not need. Not to mention the probable supposition that in such cases the emolument would in some way be restored to the college, it is confidently replied that, any stimulus to self-control and industry which may chance to reach the inheritors of wealth it is for the interest of the community to bestow. Moreover, to those who are troubled by difficulties of this description, it may be pointed out that they could be well-nigh avoided by prudent conditions...
WHEN a brief and unpretending letter like mine calls forth nearly a column of editorial abuse from the Advocate, there must be either a remarkable sensitiveness to criticism or else a great lack of subjects for editorials. In the latter case I am glad to have furnished a slight stimulus to the laggard editorial pen; in the former case perhaps a slight explanation will help allay the indignation I have unwittingly excited...