Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ages, the athlete's heart, is fast becoming an asset rather than the serious liability it was once regarded. It would be interesting to read the figures of longevity compiled by the insurance companies twenty five years from now to note what effect the stringent medical examinations, the necessary stimulus to studies, and the emphasis of the Varsity Club dietician would have on the future life of the Harvard sportsman...
...more opportunity for the students to mingle with the faculty to have the lamp of truth in the very midst of their lives instead of only on the classroom fringe-for the so-called "inner-college" plan provides professors' rooms in the dormitories. This may prove a valuable stimulus to that class of students inherently brilliant, but also lazy, who would like to know some bother to find them...
...lack of association between professor and pupil have always been the targets of educational reformers. Two solutions are proposed: enlisting the aid of the student in his own education through comprehensive examinations; and a small and intimate community of teachers and pupils as the ideal setting for intellectual stimulus...
These advertisements were in all probability printed merely as jokes and nothing more but the stimulus that prompted them was considerably deeper than these externals show. The law went into effect ten years ago, when the students of average college ago today were too young to appreciate its full meaning. Yet, the theory that those who never drank liquor could be educated not to want it has apparently been shattered, either because the education on this subject has been none too good or because the taste for liquor cannot be destroyed...
...examinations and tutors from a small beginning in one department seventeen years ago to practically all undergraduate work speaks for itself. Carrying ahead the same concept of a liberal education from the undergraduate to the professional field the leaders of the School of Business Administration hope to give further stimulus to those men who are able to go ahead in a definite field of study. From the point of view of the university as a whole the extension of the idea of individual responsibility to the Business School is another indication of the essential unity of Harvard's widely diversified...