Word: quota
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members, they will will refuse to bear their fair share in the support of our athletics. The deficit may arise from a lack of proper canvassing. We sincerely trust that this is the only reason, and that the freshmen, if personally solicited, will contribute with pleasure their quota to the general Boat Club fund...
Memorial Hall has had its usual spring vacation quota of boarders, between two hundred and fifty and three hundred, considerably more than were there during the Christmas recess. The library has been almost deserted, the finals being far enough removed to cause little or no anxiety to the average student. Withal the vacation has been a very pleasant one, and the universal cry is, "Oh, for another week like this...
...more cooperation on the part of interested outsiders, especially from the under-classmen. The work hither to done by eighty-six has been confined almost entirely to the men at present on the board, giving no chance for the selection of additional editors to fill up the quota from that class. As for eighty-seven, so little work has been produced by them that great delay will be caused in finding freshman editors unless they show decided improvement in the near future...
...absences possible in one year (counting three for each Sabbath morning chapel) is about 875; of these, as we have already stated, the student is allowed fifty, the year being divided into two terms and a half. It only remains to state that if a student accumulates his quota of twenty absences, a notice is sent to his parents, and he is warned. If he receives thirty he is suspended from college for two or four weeks. If he received over twenty the whole number "count off his grade" - two-tenths for each absence. All these rules are enforced with...
...base-ball interest has entirely died out. The inter-class games, which were begun so enthusiastically, were necessarily abandoned, owing to the refusal of the two lower classes, especially the sophomores, to contribute their quota towards the requisite fund. The season has, however, developed several strong players, and we confidently expect to have a strong college nine in the fall...