Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first system for which renovation of some sort is desirable is the manner with which Faculty advisers guide freshmen at the outset of their undergraduate careers. I should say, rather, fall to guide. There seems to be an idea that the freshman year, with its full quota of prescribed courses, is rather a waste anyway and is not deserving of serious attention. The advisers, consequently, explain as briefly as possible the methods of distribution and concentration, fill up the freshman's cards with all the elementary courses it will hold, and dismiss the young man with the conviction...
...granite cutters of Aberdeen, the miners of South Africa and Great Britain have surrendered their quota to death by silicosis. These places have their mines and quarries, New York has its blasted tunnels. The growth of fibres around the cell "clumps" is in the nature of a healing process. If the irritation were stopped at this stage the lungs would heal. It is the increasing accumulation of silica particles and the continued growth of fibres that finally cause death. Perhaps the present agitation will move the New York State Legislature to pass the compensation bill it has neglected for four...
Several eminent graduates of the University, who resided in the hall during their undergraduate days, have expressed their willingness to donate a sum of money toward a quota which will enable them to purchase this famous old dormitory with the intention of giving it to the University. This was the original plan of the late C. C. Stillman '98, who bought it to save for Harvard...
...angles have recently been written. The leader once considered the head of an ordered, unified whole has now become the great binding force in an aggregation of thirteen turbulent units. He is no longer the majestic, legendary figure of the old schoolbooks, but a human being with the usual quota of human frailities...
...about three weeks after the spring recess, this quota will be filled by members of the University and 1931 golf teams, but following the cut of these squads, about nine players per day will be permitted to use the course. Only eight people will be allowed to play on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays...