Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been previously announced the main effort of canvassers will be to secure a 100 per cent, enrolment among the students. In this way the undergraduate feeling will be shown in such a way as to produce the greatest stimulus to subscriptions from graduates. Large subscriptions in the College will, however, be welcomed, and it is expected that the total will help considerably toward reaching the final goal of the Endowment Fund...
...desires to find the rare combination of thorough going fun with intellectual stimulus and inspiration, there is no better place than the conference on Lake George from June 25 to July...
...general idea of a comprehensive examination to test the student's attainments in a field of study as a prerequisite to graduation, too much cannot be said. As a stimulus to thought and reading, and as a co-ordinating force, no better method than the preparation the divisional examinations require could probably be divised. Their whole idea is based on the presumption that men who come to college want an education and not merely a degree. Such examinations, demanding as they do a broad knowledge of a subject and not a temporary grasp of a few courses, are, indeed...
...time for independent thought. His reading is largely the reading necessary for his specified courses; he has neither time nor energy for exploration for its won sake. There is on plethora of clubs for discussion; when these exist they are mainly social in their nature. There is not the stimulus to originality which a good man can get at Oxford or Cambridge. On the other hand, there is more equality of treatment; the passman does not fall into the slough of ignorant content which the English universities offer him. In the result the average man fares better than he does...
Students of Philosophy will find an exhibition in the Widener Library of extreme interest. The collection of 200 volumes, donated by Professor G. H. Palmer, consisting of early and first editions of philosophical works, was presented in the hope that it would act as a stimulus influencing other collectors to contribute to the Philosophical Library...