Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, unless more instructors are assigned to do this work. The Committee should either be enlarged to take over the job of advising on a much larger scale, or preferably it should be allowed to resume the work it was originally intended to do, namely to supervise the flexible Quota System and continue to collect the information for the University, which it has done so far in a most efficient and praise-worthy manner...
...clasticity of the quota system as it is now organized is witnessed by the number of men who either last Summer or in the Fall had had a change of heart with regard to concentration and were permitted by the various departments concerned to mend their mistakes. The need for such generosity would to a large degree have been obviated if the proper choice of a field of concentration had been made in the first place. When the present Freshman Adviser system, with its absolute incapacity to guide the undecided student along the paths most advantageous to him, has been...
Since the University has made no effort to freeze into a permanent mould the relative size of the departments, there is no cause for complaint about the harshness of the quota system. Many departments have already increased their quotas, bowing to popular demand, and it is hopeful that similar reorganization will constantly take place in accordance with current preferences. The quotas are set mostly for administrative purposes alone, and the Freshman in good standing who has the conviction of his choice need have no fear of the specter of a departmental lockout...
Under the present plan now in effect in the House dining halls, a man may subscribe to 10, 14, or 21 meals a week. If he eats more than his quota, a definite rate for each meal must be paid. For next year this will be $.35 for breakfast, $.55 for lunch, and $.80 for supper...
With their college championships being held this weekend at Moosilaukee on Hell's Highway, Dartmouth is not sending its usual quota of skiers to the A.M.C. race. Bud Titcomb, Ed Meservey, Eddie Wells, and John Litchfield are the wearers of the Green who will try to uphold their past good records...