Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman class failed to cast the quota of votes necessary for the election of officers, the voting will be continued in the Standish Hall Common Room this afternoon from 12 until 6 o'clock. According to Article III, Section 10, in the constitution of the three lower classes, 60 percent of more of the members of the class must-vote before an election of class officers is declared valid. Yesterday only 449 men voted whereas 522 are needed to give the desired quota...
...Freshmen vote on March 1. They will probably finish in one day. They will get their 60 percent quota without difficulty: They have yet to learn of the Harvard tradition, "Don't vote unless you feel like it. What's the use?" But unless "something is done about it", the class of 1925 will go down on record with the other three classes now in college as "Just another example of Harvard indifference." When the newness has worn off, when the Freshman becomes that worldly-wise gentleman, the Sophomore, the ghost of the voting question will rise again...
...rather the means that seem ill-advised. It is necessary to reduce the quota of ensigns which will be available to the navy. If Washington feels that four hundred of the midshipmen now in the academy must be denied commissions, why not put the matter to them? It is probable that there are that number of men in the Academy who would be glad to return to civilian life. Let them signify their desire to do so and give them their discharge papers when they graduate. Or, award the permissible number of commissions on a scholastic basis from among...
...York Tribune discusses the matter very clearly. Take, for instance, the news item of the arrival of two Russian couples, each with a baby less than a year old. The babies had both been born in Constantinople, while the families were en route to America. The Russian quota was not complete, the Turkish was; hence the parents were eligible to enter, but the babies would have to be deported. As the case of the seventy-one year old peasant who was sent back to Europe, although his son and daughter, amply able to care for him, were waiting just outside...
...great majority of our immigration difficulties could be averted. You cannot handle immigration as you do the tariff. The only fair way to settle the perplexity is to allow the officials at each port of entry more personal discretion in the judgment of the various cases--to make the Quota Law itself more flexible, more capable of expansion as necessity arises. Unless this is done the comic opera ending in tragedy, will continue to be enacted. And all this is quite apart from the consideration of the light in which America will be regarded by those nations whose peoples...