Word: elicitation
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...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...
...only excuse that I have been able to elicit from an instructor concerning this custom, was, that if the papers were given back a great deal of trouble would be caused by complaints over marks. In other words personal annoyance was given as the cause of hiding the marks from the student...
...week of Pauline Hall's engagement in "Dorcas" at the Boston Museum. The original music by the eminent composer Max Hirschfeld, who personally conducts the orchestra, is sure to be appreciated. Miss Hall in her triple role of peddler, "mine host's wife," and Lady Honoria, never fails to elicit applause. Mr. C. B. Bradshaw as Lubin Mugby makes a most successful country bumpkin. The rest of the cast are well suited to the demands of the play...
Already, however, enough has been done to elicit warm commendation from the students. The members of the Faculty chiefly interested have asked the advice of a number of representative college men, showing that no step will be taken which is not likely to meet the approval of all college men. It is plainly not the desire of these members of the Faculty to control the conferences, but simply to establish them and then trust to student control...