Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...beginning of the year it was thought that it would be a good plan to give certificates to all who had faithfully attended their courses during the year; but as there has been little need for such stimulus, it has been decided to give them only to those who wished them. Diplomas, however, will be given to those who have successfully completed two years' work at the Union...
These suggestions will cause little additional trouble to the club members, who we are confident will regard it a pleasure and a duty to give a new stimulus to an old feature of college life-still very dear to the hearts of Harvard...
...Cutting, Jr., pleaded for a greater unity of spirit among the members of the class both in college and after graduation. R. C. Bolling, representing "Debating," urged more men to participate in debating, in which 1900 was more handicapped than any other class owing to the lack of stimulus of a Yale freshman debate. The poem by R. S. Holland was by far the best effort of the evening. The personal hits were well received by the class. Besides the regular toasts, impromptu speeches were made by J. M. Glidden and N. Robinson...
...yesterday and the following men came out for the Weld: Tilton, Glidden, Kernan, Palmer, Saltonstall, Emery. The Weld squad has been reduced and now contains about twenty-eight men, who will continue to row for some time in three eights and a four-oar. This material should give new stimulus to the crews and push them ahead faster than they have hitherto been able to go, retarded as they were by the quantity of absolutely raw material...
...University Song as well as a University Club? For there seems to be a strange lack of a college song familiar to all of us. All our gatherings seem incomplete without one. We know how quickly the sympathies of an assembly are awakened by the stimulus of a good chorus. It has the same virtue as a college yell in that each man contributes his part to the common expression, and is conscious of his participation; in fact, the college song is the proper complement of the college cheer...