Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeps over their oppression, and is constantly setting them up in potential, and terrible revolution against the ruling classes. Moreover, Sandberg is not really one of the working class because they do not read him. His readers consist mostly of the dilettante who like his poetry for the emotional stimulus it gives them...
...outer surface of the brain is grey in color. Here are the nerve cells which function in consciousness. One estimate counts 92,000,000 cells. A stimulus comes to one or more of these, and each affected cell stimulates ten of its neighbors (by this theory). Each of these ten stimulates a neighboring ten, and so on by geometrical proportion, until the influence of the original stimulus fades away. Such stimuli are normally brought to these cells in the grey cortex (bark) by the nerve fibres. These form the white core of the brain. (Naturally there are blood vessels...
...health of lyric drama everywhere that I have undertaken to produce the Musical Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre," explained Morris Gest in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "Without some such stimulus as Dantchenko and his synthetic theatre are providing, the lyric drama would, I believe, drop to even lower levels than it has now reached and I doubt if ever before the public interest in opera has been much lower...
...knowledge of the English system of instruction and his undoubted scholarship will give an impetus to the tutorial system which will go far toward completing its success. Under the stimulus of Professor Murray and similar scholars in later years, tutors and undergraduates of every department whose work comes under the broad definition of poetry will benefit by personal contact with leaders of thought. Truly the chair in honor of Professor Norton is an unusually valuable addition to Harvard scholarship. In the words of President Lowell, the professorship of poetry "helps the struggle of years to place college emphasis on intellectual...
...important thing in education is not the doctrine taught but the awakening of the student. The tutorial system is a recognition of this truth. The most important benefit conferred by the direct contact between a student and a tutor is just this: that the student may receive a new stimulus to intellectual development and respond to it by what is truly an awakening of his more or less dormant powers. The tutorial system not only is a powerful instrument for effecting such a transformation, but is helping to bring it about earlier in the student's career than was formerly...