Word: quota
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...usual quota of mass meetings and pop nights have been held and the Dining Room has been much used for class smokers. About 400 volumes have been added to the library, which now has a total of about 9300 volumes...
...football schedule has been approved with its full quota of games! But with its announcement comes a startling vote from the Athletic Committee, submitting for our consideration a proposition to abolish entirely all intercollegiate contests between the date of the Yale football game and the spring recess...
...odds cannot consider fair-mindedly each others' points of view. Friction between instructors and students is the last thing that any of us care to see, but if any friction has resulted, the CRIMSON does not hold itself responsible. In upholding our right to engage in our full quota of intercollegiate contests, we have merely expressed the opinion of a large majority of the undergraduates, and incidentally...
...part that you must play, continued the Bishop, is to send us good men ordained as ministers. No University that is not sending its quota of men to the ministry is doing its duty. Besides this you can do a great deal by your life here. Nothing does more harm to our cause when we are struggling against immorality than to see in a University, the centre of culture, any laxation on this point. Unless you Harvard men are absolutely sound on the question of morality and drink, you are undermining our work and are doing the world more harm...
...funny, quite as well told, and if possible even more improbable. "At the End of Four Years," signed "Ezra Kidd," gives a new version of a rather common plot, with a technique and setting decidedly better than the common. A mistaken impression that each number must have its quota of verses doubtless led the Advocate to insert such a sonnet as an "August Afternoon on Gay Head...