Word: quota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case; but the increase in the number of persons entering the educational field (11 percent) is roughly proportional to the growth of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The general conclusion to be arrived at is, therefore, that the University as a whole continues to supply its usual quota of professional educators, but that the secondary school teachers who formerly came from the newly graduated classes, has turned directly to the business and professional callings...
Unless officers be elected by expression of the entire class, they can not be representative. The requisite quota will not be reached if every member leaves the balloting to his room-mate. In order to ensure the election of men who from the start can command the support of the class at large, each one must cast his vote--today...
...which has been set for the colleges to raise, means that the share of Harvard is three dollars per man, almost three times the present average of $1.19. The total of $3,300 raised so far is only a third of the $10,000 quota which Yale has set for herself. The facts clearly indicate that to treble our present total is the least...
...Harvard to shirk in carrying its share of the national quota seems so preposterous as to be incredible. But to treble a week's work in one day is no easy task. It must be that two-thirds of the University are asleep to the condition of the drive; no one would willingly shirk his share of so deserving an appeal...
...alive the starving students of Europe. He stressed the fact that to reach the total, not only would all those who were capable have to subscribe $10, the amount necessary to save one life; but also all others would have to subscribe a certain amount to reach the average quota. Mr. Weist also gave some of the details and quotas at other colleges. Cornell has set a goal of $10,000, Illinois of $30,000. At Yale the committee in charge has determined to seek a maximum of $15,000 and a minimum of $10,000. At Yale the plans...