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...eating problem which faces the University, the CRIMSON announces the opening of a prize essay competition on the subject of the gastronomic situation in its relation to the student body. By offering such an opportunity for men to express their sentiments on this vexed question, the CRIMSON hopes to elicit a number of constructive suggestions which will assist in its ultimate solution. The money for the prizes in this contest is being contributed jointly by the Student Council and the CRIMSON...
...what is wrong with your prospective convert-either from gossip or local suspicion. There is some sin which is obstructing his free communion with God. Accuse him of the sin of which you suspect him. Then by confessing to him (man to man) your own former weaknesses you will elicit a full confession from him. . . . This is often the kind of drastic, spiritual operation which alone can prevent a superficial repentance and unreal conversion. In New York City, last winter, a university student leader came to talk with Mr. Buchman about entering the Christian ministry. . . . Mr. Buchman answered his questions...
...only way of obtaining reliable data is to catechizes the players at the time they are engaged in playing the game and even then such are the fallacies due to the well-known principles of rationalizing and compensating, that a very precise questionnaire by experts is necessary to elicit reliable facts. Too much feeling enters into the question to settle if off hand by superficial questioning. The best test is behavior...
There are certain things one does not talk about at the luncheon table. A detailed description of personal diseases, for instance, however arresting the symptoms, rarely furnishes appetizing aliment for conversation; revelations of exotic fissures or cavities in the teeth (illustrated) often fail to elicit applause; while a discussion of loathsome and fatal afflictions of the skin, together with an account of the sufferer's pangs and an outline of the methods used to relieve same constitutes a type of data even less acceptable to the fastidious...
...nobody's business and yet is everybody's business is expected at the White House, it is rumored. . . ." The Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet, ran two pictures of the Coolidges, was careful to say: "Inquiry among attaches of the White House has failed,however, to elicit confirmation of the story." Characteristic of these two journals was their employment, in the headlines, of the delicately definitive word "stork...