Word: quota
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...care for the justice of a case but are willing to undertake any case if they see a chance of winning. The majority of lawyers, too, are very slow to abandon a case when once fairly started, but there are lawyers-and these constitute no small quota of the legal profession-who refuse to take a case which is morally unjust, though admitting legal advocation. Of this class the most notable example is Abraham Lincoln...
Notwithstanding the present open weather, the freshman crew will continue to train in the gymnasium. The present quota of twenty-five will be continued until late in the spring...