Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With many collectors still to make their report, the fund for the Philips Brooks House Association was still a little short of the announced quota at a late hour last night...
Although the time for the drive was extended until last night, it was impossible to secure complete returns. The money received yesterday brought the total sum almost to the total, and it is expected that complete returns would swell the quota to the desired amount...
...detachment of Rhodes scholars, bound for Oxford. They had attended a farewell dinner at the Harvard club, heard discussed a tentative plan of the Rhodes trustees to abandon the present method of selecting two scholars every three years from each state and substituting a method whereby the quota would be allotted from six to eight districts into which the country would be divided. The object: a more representative group of students. Details of the plan were not published, nor were the dinner speeches of President Frank P. Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, U. S. secretary of the trust, and Sir Philip...
...clock last night the fund for the Phillips Brooks House was still over $700 short of the announced quota. Although the time for the drive has been extended from Friday until tonight, three-fourths of the collectors appointed have as yet handed in no report of their work. The money received yesterday brought the total sum to $3294.64 and the results of the efforts of the delinquent men should send the drive above...
Eighteen hundred dollars have yet to be collected to complete the undergraduate quota of $4000 for the Phillips Brooks House Association Drive, which will end this evening. At 11 o'clock last night the amount for the day had just passed the thousand dollar mark, bringing the total to something over $2200 since the beginning of the campaign last Wednesday evening...