Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immigration. Late in April (TIME, May 2) the U. S. Department of Labor issued General Order 86 which, among other provisions, classed naturalized but foreign-born Canadians as quota-immigrants, ruled that after Jan. 1, 1928, they could enter the U. S. only by securing admission under the quota given their country of birth. In other words, a Canadian citizen born in London would stand the same chance of getting into the U. S. as would a British citizen born in London and still living there. It should be added, however, that Canadians, even though foreign born, who have been...
...club started flying in March. For the first time this spring it was decided to open the club membership to undergraduate competition and out of the 50 candidates who reported it was possible to select 14 men, bringing the present total membership to 37, 13 less than the constitutional quota...
...prominent graduate, already a heavy donor, has come forward with an additional offer if four men in a certain sector of the country will give just twice as much. This would assure the quota set by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fund being now one hundred thousand dollars shy. To increase the sporting chance the latest challenge has been hurled directly in the teeth of New England. Her reputation for open-handed giving and largesse is at stake and ninety thousand dollars has been set as its proof. A new zest has been added to what must have become a palling...
...official American Delegation to the Soviet Republics is at present being organized by the Student Council of New York, affiliated with the student governments of the New York City colleges. This delegation is approved by the central student body of the Soviet Party. As yet not the full quota of Harvard representatives has been selected...
...undergraduates on the question. The decision of the Freshman Committee to abandon its petition after obtaining two hundred signatures means only one thing,--there will be no amelioration of the eating problem for at least another year, Five hundred names was set by President Lowell as the quota necessary to assure the University administration that a sufficient number of men were desirous of gastronomic reform to warrant the construction of the hall. It was also stipulated that unless the petition was filled before the end of the college year there would be no possibility of having the building ready...