Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first half of the class were men whose parents or friends could provide for them. Out of the first fifty twenty-three only were candidates for scholarships. These facts prove that scholarly ambition prevails in good degree among that large majority of our students who do not feel the stimulus of impending want...
...little worth; they are ever complaining of our defeats, taking it as a matter of course that we ought always to win, and never considering that the clubs who beat us are usually composed of men who devote their entire time to base-ball, and, as an extra stimulus for good play, receive salaries in proportion to the value of their services...
...University shells till next year. A class race, even in our club boats, would be far more interesting than club races can ever be, and would insure the entrance of crews better trained than they have been for the two years past, and class feeling would act as a stimulus to greater exertion...
...then, should such a man, having little taste for history or philosophy, or rather a greater love for literature, not be allowed special honors in general literature, without confining himself to classics or modern languages? Why would not the stimulus and incentive for honors in some such courses as Greek 9, 11; Latin 5, 8; Italian 3; English 2; and either English 3 or Spanish 3 be just as beneficial, to a man of a purely literary temperament, as the courses laid out in history or philosophy or mathematics for men who have tastes in that direction only...
...Princeton men have no confidence in their Nine, at least they never bet on it. We hardly claim it as due to the revival influence over them, or to a high degree of moral perfection. They did n't bet and would n't bet under the most powerful stimulus of 10 to 0. Perhaps there is where the screw is loose. Betting may change luck. One youth of Princeton was pointed out as having a pot of $500 which he was willing to put up. A crowd of already disappointed strangers from Connecticut instantly and quickly drew around...