Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University. The practice of intermigration between different universities which offer valuable opportunities of graduate study,-a practice now having much to recommend it to the American student,-is thus rendered possible, so far as the regulations of Harvard are concerned; and with this practice is likely to come much stimulus to the intellectual life of our places of learning...
...Biennial elections would diminish the public spirit of the people by taking from them the educational stimulus of annual elections: R. L. Bridgman, New England Magazine, VIII...
...writer in one place speaks of the stimulus that liberal prizes like the scholarships would be to the rich man. What powerful incentive would money be to the man who already has plenty? The chief incentive to such a man would be the honor gained, and there are higher honors open to the scholar than those which are called scholarships. If the scholarships were open to those men who had plenty of money, it would be hardly fair to the poorer students. A rich man would feel when he won a scholarship that the money would far better have gone...
...courses in History and Political Science may be written in competition for prizes as well. Such a system not only is sure to bring about a much more active competition for the prizes, and to increase their value proportionately, but also will serve as a very healthy stimulus to the courses in which the theses are written. Thus the work done in future for prizes will not mean so much time taken away from the equally important prescribed work, as was inevitable before; and to the pecuniary inducement which alone might have appealed to a man will be added that...
...outcome of the debate last week between Yale and Princeton is another indication of the fact to which we called attention recently, namely, that Yale is waking up in this branch of intercollegiate competition. The victory will be a stronger stimulus to effort in this direction than anything that has been done yet. Harvard must recognize the signs of the times and profit by them...