Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...period receive so much gratuitous advice. When they are about to graduate they realize that once again and for the last time, the world has stopped on its way to tell them what is expected of them. The Class of 1921 has not failed to receive its due quota of advice. Collectively and individually the seniors have been warned, exhorted and directed -- as is the custom...
...Business School is having no difficulty in completing the enrollment of its next entering class, recently limited to three hundred men; applications enough to provide for approximately two thirds of the quota have already been received. This would be an encouraging outlook but for the fact that few of the applicants are Harvard men. It seems hardly credible that this should be the case,--that those who are best able to know the good work the school is doing should be so poorly represented in its membership. The only reason which can be ascribed is that it is considered...
...alumnus writes: "There are many alumni who would prefer not to have the present quota of students increased. There was many a good regiment damaged by too many recruits...
...essential to the success of the conference, it is but an incidental. If Harvard undergraduates are frankly not interested in social and economic problems or in a chance to build up their religious faith, they should go elsewhere for their vacations. Better by far to furnish no quota at all than a delegation of undergraduates picnic-bent. For those who are interested, however, the series of lectures and the opportunity given for meeting students from other universities and religions leaders, cannot be too strongly recommended...
...baseball game and track meet with Princeton on one day under any circumstances is a full quota for the Crimson. Today the two contests have added significance; the baseball team has to make up for its unexpected defeat at the hands of Amherst on Wednesday and prove that that was only a fluke; the track team has to make today's victory one of points...