Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About a century later, after 1830, the vein of the songs begins to change. Dancing and the musical theatre performance usher in a new type of frivolous song composition. Each year brings its quota of new "marches", "quicksteps", "variations", "gallops", "quadrilles", "polkas", "schottisches", and "mazurkas". Then, as dancing and the musical theatricals begin to show their influence, are found such titles as "The Harvard Quadrille, to the ladies of the Harvard sociables" and "The Hollis Hall Polka". Finally comes "rag time" in the early 1900's and even in this the University is by no means left...
...feel that the drive has been by any means a failure," said J. C. McGlone, chairman of the committee, last night. "The quota of $4,000 was set only because it was the amount subscribed by last year's drive, and, in view of the difficulties we have had to face in carrying on the present campaign, I believe that we have done as well as might be expected." McGlone also expressed his opinion that the amount will be considerably raised when the statements of the collectors...
...Student Friendship drive begins the final day of its campaign today with a bleak prospect of raising its quota of $4,000 by the closing hour this evening. At a late hour last night, although more than a third of the collectors' reports were not in the hands of the Committee, the total collection amounted approximately to only $982. The amount is discouragingly low but the committee expects to finish up its final day with the most intensive canvas which it has yet made...
...slowness of the response by the undergraduates to the appeal of the drive this year is unparalleled during the four years that it has been undertaken. Last year more than five times the amount was raised in the same time and in 1923 the quota was completed at the same stage of the drive. The committee had hoped by somewhat shortening the length of the campaign to facilitate collection by cutting down on the period of option for subscription, but the method has seemingly not proved so effectual so far as was expected...
...very fine one indeed. Any attempt to help needy students, no matter where they are, should be met with approbation, not criticism. Once its cause is carefully explained and well understood, one may feel confident that Harvard will not be slow to subscribe its full quota...