Word: quota
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article on "The Freshman Advisers." The bitter opening caricature of the freshmen is rather uncalled for when it is considered that the greater part of the condemnation of this plan of advisers for the freshmen has come from upperclassmen; and if we mistake not, the Advocate has contributed its quota of editorial sarcasm to the "guardian angels" of the freshmen. Aside from this the article is one of the most sensible which has appeared in the Advocate for some time. No one who has seriously considered the matter can doubt that the system of advisers for the freshmen will result...
...United States, and that we have nothing to gain by commercial union with Canada which we cannot now secure by reciprocity treaties. He thought it impossible for the United States to assimilate Canada successfully; that Canada will not consent to union except with the right of representation, and her quota of senators and representatives would hold the balance of power in all legislation...
...Photographic Study of Stellar Spectra conducted at the Harvard College Observatory." Seth Carlo Chandler has written "The Almucator," a volume of 222 pages. In the Medical School the writings have been unusually voluminous. Nearly every one in the faculty has furnished something, and a few have exceeded their quota. There were no books of any particular pretension published, but the productions appeared as editorials and special articles in different medical periodicals at home and abroad. In the Natural History department little has been published, but the few productions have been of great value. In botanical work three names...
...feel little humiliation that in the artistic and, to a certain extent, in the scholarly world we are still far inferior to our European brothers. Every day we watch with complacency the departure of friends "to study abroad." With unconcern we see the annual exodus of a quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this flight for knowledge is a confession of the inability to acquire that knowledge here. Does it not seem as if this great western half of civilization might at least equal the eastern...
...aspirants for like aquatic honors. * * * The thanks of the college are due to the class for inaugurating a custom that undoubtedly will be of the utmost advantage to our university boating interests as adding experience to men while in their freshmen year and then giving the university boat its quota of men after the race of freshmen year is over. The whole matter can be made a perfect success only by honest hard work, and the best of financial support on the part of all the class...