Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Dr. Park there is a remedy for this situation. Students should be separated into two groups: those who come to college for intellectual stimulus and to whom elementary restrictions and requirements only serve as checks to further progress; and the who come to college because it is being done. Of necessity the latter will I, treated like "preparatory school students, and will be forced to spend a certain amount of time in the college presumably in study...
...only direct repudiation of the Coolidge Administration came in Massachusetts where the President's good friend, Senator William M. Butler, was smitten down by David Ignatius Walsh, Democratic Wet, Irish-Catholic. Even in Northampton with the added stimulus of the President and Mrs. Coolidge's personal votes, Senator Butler barely nosed out Senator-elect Walsh by 53 votes. However, the slap at the Administration is somewhat lessened by the well-known, potent vote-getting powers of Mr. Walsh and the colorless conservatism of business-like Senator Butler...
With the added stimulus of a promised game with the championship class team of Yale for the winning class eleven, more interest is being taken in class football at Harvard this year than ever before. Under the guidance of competent coaches, the Crimson undergraduate combinations are receiving more attention than ever before, and at the end of the season it is possible that several of the more promising players will be raised to the University and Second squads...
...with genuine regret that I address these lines to you, for the true Harvard man must at all times preserve his traditional indifference, but there are times when one tradition must be set aside to preserve another. In this matter the only stimulus that will arouse the student body to proper action is a vigorous word from your columns...
...might be drawn anathema upon modern dancing for a thoughtless, urbane congregation ("For surely, my friends, if there is any choice . . . the odds are all in favor of hugging on the sofa, as the dance is hugging set to music, and music always has an exciting effect . . . rhythmical motion . . . stimulus of music . . . bodily contact . . . danger . . . wreck . . . ruin...