Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limitation number of the first year class of the Business School has been raised from 400 to 500. This quota is already filled, making a total of 864 in the School...
Payments toward the annual Budget quota of $ 12,000 are falling considerably behind the total marked up at this time last year, it was announced yesterday by James DeNormandie '29, chairman of the Budget Committee. With a balance of $ 4,678 to show at the end of the present period of registration, the total is several thousand dollars less than that of September...
During the two years since its inception at Harvard, the Budget system, requiring a total quota of $12,000 to cover its expenditures, has clearly demonstrated its superiority over former methods. Hitherto, the quota has already been more than half collected at the conclusion of the registration period. The remainder is usually added by the last of November. Checks are made payable to the Student Council and should be sent this year, to Phillips Brooks House...
...Manxmen had some purposes other than curiosity for journeying so far from home. Manxman Crookall and his lieutenant, Manxman Richard Cain, wished to induce the government of the U. S. to make a special proviso in its immigration quota for incoming Manxmen. Said A. B. Crookall: "Our young men are anxious to come to this country. We want a quota like the Irish Free State and Scotland...
...homeland there is little ... to do except farm and fish," said Manxman Cain. U. S. Manxmen, headed by Manxman Daniel Teare, did not favor this proposal. Said Manxman Teare: "I am an American as well as a Manxman and if we started making a separate quota for every little community the size of the Isle of Man, where would we be?" At the final session, however, the North American Manx Association was organized, with constitution and officers; its president was A. B. Crookall...