Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty Committe on Regional Studies has set up the Center to give "cohesion and stimulus" to graduate training and research programs concerned with the area. Plans call for more intensive study of Japan, Korea, and other potential trouble areas...
...Stimulus for the proposal came primarily from the Radcliffe Volunteer Service Organization, Pittenger asserted. Some Brooks House committees, such as the General Hospitals Committee, are--in fact, if not in theory--integrated. At the other extreme, the RVSO committee on Reading to the Blind has no Harvard equivalent...
...liberalization in the requirements for the advanced placement student would therefore give him more freedom and added intellectual stimulus, and yet still hew to that University ideal of requiring some intellectual nibbling from all fields...
...only one case was it adjudged worse-a schizophrenic, 18, who was unmarried. Concludes Psychiatrist Arkle: "In the vast majority of cases the decision not to intervene was the correct one as judged by the law in this country . . . It seems likely that, to an unbalanced woman, the stimulus of a normal pregnancy is less deleterious than [abortion] . . . The psychiatrist must not allow the sociologists and geneticists to deceive him into exceeding his duty as a physician...
...terms however, there is no chance of this within the foreseeable future. Budgetary considerations and old-fashioned conservatism would prevent any immediate universality for the plan. There is another great factor, a lingering belief that many of the students in the College actually learn more because of the grade stimulus than they would without...