Word: eliciting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only are your editorials worth reading but the letters they elicit are most interesting. I was struck by two of these which contrasted Switzerland with Belgium and used the contrast as an argument for our being more prepared for war. It is entirely possible that Belgium, had she been more military, might have frightened off the German attack. But the plain fact is that all the nations that have heavy armamens, except Italy and the United States, are at war and none of the nations of minor military strength, except Servia, Montenegro, and Belgium...
...questions such as "What is to be your vocation?" "Why did you elect this course?" "What difficulties have you met?" The purpose of these questions is not to discover "what the public wants" in order to make any course more entertaining. Neither will the information they elicit affect instructors' estimates of students' work, for the answers are to be mailed directly to the Division of Education. Their purpose is evidently to enable the department to meet individual needs: a duty easily neglected in large scale education, but none the less important. Foreign experts have criticized American education in that...
...trials for the interclass debate teams from the three upper classes which will be held tonight, should elicit the interest of all men in the University interested in maintaining Harvard's position in intercollegiate debating. The purpose of the series of interclass debates, which has been inaugurated by the Debating Council, is to establish a system whereby material for the University debate teams will be developed. Heretofore, much of this material has been found in the Law School, already developed by experience in other colleges, and sufficient men from the College to maintain strong teams in the intercollegiate contests have...