Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change, for a liberalization of the system. And having considered the request, Lehman Hall has responded that there are many objections to be overcome. An unlimited freedom, where a man could sign for his own meals in any House and have the slip counted in his own quota, presents, it claims, many obstacles. The amount of book-keeping, already great, would be enormously increased, and require expensive additional clerks. Convenient or peculiarly attractive Houses would soon become eating centers, and would be overcrowded; under such conditions, bound to be unstable and irregular, it would be impossible to estimate with accuracy...
...first plan is to allow the host to sign for his guest's meal on a slip exactly like his own; thus the slip would be counted in the host's quota, at no additional cost. The scheme seems to answer the objections. There need obviously be no added book-keeping; and while there would be more inter-House dining, the restriction of the host's signature ought to prevent any concentrated rush from House to House, with its consequent disruption of meal-planning and degeneracy of House Unity. Such a system seems to be sufficiently liberal to satisfy undergraduates...
...name of his House; in another place the host would affix his countersign. The difficulties of book-keeping should not be measurably increased, for these special slips could be separated, sent to the House where the guest resides, added to his own slips, and then counted in with his quota. The countersign of the host would be required and would insure practically the same desirable restriction as in the first proposal...
...foreign student arriving in the U. S. outside his nation's quota last week had sought to earn 50? at his college by rocking a professor's baby or washing dishes in a chophouse, he would promptly have found himself under investigation, subject to arrest and deportation. He might work in exchange for room & board or part of his tuition fees, but he could earn no U. S. cash. If he did, or if in entering he lacked adequate expense money-and immigration officials could make certain by demanding $500 bond-he had to go back where...
...price for the complete quota of games at the cheapest amounts to roughly $14. Many students cannot devote that much money for this kind of Saturday afternoon entertainment. Witness the 840 applicants for positions as ticket takers, where there were but 300 positions available. It is definitely hard, if not impossible for numbers of men to attend the Harvard football games. Possibly this is something to be thankful for. But the fact remains that the difference between the men who attend games and those who do not should be based on individual choice and not on financial considerations...