Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the University will receive circulars enclosing health seals in the mail this morning. The annual sale of Christmas seals by the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association begins today. The quota for this district is $10,000. Industrial firms and banks are cooperating i n spite of the difficult times, and the Association expects to raise the necessary amount to cover its expenses...
...primary issue" in connection with inter-House eating is the "bearing of eating in the House upon the creation of a corporate personality in the House." He fears that the system right be used by narrow groups "to avoid eating in the House by spending the weekly quota upon guests." The desirability of House corporate personality can be much exaggerated; yet if the fears expressed are well-founded, they constitute a just objection to the plan...
...reality." There is, in the first place, a considerable inertia inducing men to eat in their own House. Any narrow eating club would find the discrepancies as to the members' 11 and 12 o'clock classes standing in the way of regular gatherings. And should a student fill his quota by being host, say, to three visitors on three occasions, he would find himself pressed financially unless he in turn were regularly invited out by his guests, an unlikely and inconvenient procedure. Inter-House eating was originally proposed by the CRIMSON not on the theory that eating in the several...
...much the entertainment of guests which creates the problem as the use of the system to avoid eating in the House by spending the weekly quota upon guests. It is unnecessary to dilate upon this point; to imagine for instance, groups of men who would circulate from House to House as a narrow eating club, because one's imaginings are perhaps worse than the reality. Personally I think that the eating of a certain number of meals in the House is essential, though on the other hand, if the House exercises no other appeal, compulsory meals of themselves will...
...above proposals as they stand; if they fail to provide sufficient limitation there will then have been experience upon which to base any necessary restriction. Finally, there appears no logical reason why hosts to Freshman should not be able to include their guest's meal in their quota...