Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Executive Committee of the Student Council has suggested that Section 10 of Article III of the Constitution of the Sophomore class be annulled due to the fact that in past years it has been difficult to procure the necessary quota. The section in questions reads as follows...
...three years the University has struggled with its sixty per cent rule for class elections and each year its chagrin has increased. Day after day of balloting has gone by while committees in charge have drummed up reluctant voters until the quota was at last attained. This year elections are being carried on by postal ballot and optimistic committees seem to believe that one or two days will suffice to crown their efforts with success. For they argue quite logically that to the jaded Sophomore and the indifferent Junior it is easier to walk to a mail box than...
...Sophomore class has been even more energetic, and, seizing the bull by the horns, is holding a referendum on the subject abolishing the sixty per cent rule entirely. Such action would seem to be eminently fitting, for whether or not one day is enough to secure the quota this year, the rule has made itself thoroughly odious in the past and is far from likely to be a blessing in the future. Proposed originally because there was too little interest in the middle class elections, the rule has not even theory, much less practical success, to recommend it; interest...
...need for journalistic enlargement on the facts. Not so. The newspaper with the largest circulation in America?a paper itself not as old as this divorce case? a paper that, therefore, should be the best barometer of what the public wants, finds it profitable to add its quota to the mud thrown...
...this into effect, generalized too far. In the first place, there are certainly individuals from southern Europe who are morally, mentally and physically fitted for citizenship, just as there are certainly individuals from northern Europe who are not so fitted. To discriminate against immigrants en mass by national quota is both unjust and unreasonable. And in the second place, by giving the Secretary of Labor wide personal latitude in executing the law, there is a strong possibility that international hostility many be aroused through apparent injustices...