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...head, eyes and other parts of the body); 3) eyestrain (the patient gets dizzy looking at the ever-changing sea); 4) peripheral vagus-nerve irritation (the insides get shaken up by the complicated motion of the boat and by the minute, incessant vibration of the engines); and 5) psychic stimuli (the patient sees others kharouping and vomiting over the rail and gets sick). All influence to varying degrees the maelstrom of nausea. Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious...
...first suggestion of Professor Davis: that inspirational teachers are a prime requisite in the conservation of the college more nearly approximates the truth. For no matter how much an undergraduate may thirst for knowledge in September, after some months he requires additional stimuli than his books can supply to bolster up his human frailty. These must be supplied by those who teach. Indeed, the college like the individual must seek its strength within itself...
...million people weep by employing the obvious emotional devices of religion in a commercial play. He has used the correspondingly obvious emotional devices of war in The Enemy and will probably reap vast rewards. To one practiced in the Theatre or toa layman fastidious in the matter of emotional stimuli, it will sound like the cry of wolf, wolf. And, curiously enough, Mr. Pollock is said to believe that he is a great evangelist of human faith and progress. Probably such a belief is necessary to such a play. Without faith one cannot be furiously one-sided...
...same, but not always. And never are they related as cause and effect. A college degree attests to nothing more than an extraordinary opportunity to become educated. It is post facto evidence that for a prescribed number of years a man has been subjected to unusual mental and spiritual stimuli. That is all. Whether he has responded in proportion to his capacity is an entirely different question, but this is the significant question, but this is the significant question which determines whether a man's college degree is something for him to be proud of or ashamed...
...last report President Lowell suggested that "scholars who like to plant their chairs in the doorways should be encouraged to do so." Why not encourage and definitely aid even students to place their chairs in the doorways? Why not recognize the disappearance of the old cultural stimuli and provide for new? It is not a difficult matter, but it rests entirely in the hands of the academic administration...