Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hunnewell '02, Secretary of the Corporation, has received from the Department of Labor notice of the Doak order forbidding students admitted to the United States under a non-quota basis from working to meet their expenses. The number of men at Harvard last year who were admitted in this classification was approximately 100 men, or one-third of the total group of foreign students in attendance at the University...
...recent Deak ruing of the Department of Labor, destined to make it impossible for non quota foreign students to de part time work to pay for their education in the United States, is a regulation warranting stern opposition among all who enjoy the privileges of liberal institutions. Destined to take jobs away from roughly 2500 students, thus making them available to Americans, this decree is aimed at a group in our society which if anything, should be encouraged instead of hampered in coming to this country for study...
...every foreign student of income acquired in part time work. The regulation primarily checks persons with little academic purposes in mind, who enroll in a university such as Columbia, for example, with the occult aim of living and working in the United States without coming in under the quota regulation. "These pseudo students deserve the restriction that the Doak ruling is destined to give. The deplorable fact is that a somewhat scattered group of foreign students, some of whom are dependent on their part time earnings to fulfill scholarship obligations, and whose jobs cannot greatly relieve domestic unemployment...
...withdrawal of privileges hitherto enjoyed here by non-quota foreign students violates the spirit of welcome shown them by our own students as well as by university and college authorities. It might be argued that a foreigner who had not, in part at least, worked his way through college could not quite know our educational advantages. But to deny young men from France, Germany, Italy or Great Britain the opportunity to get an education which American students are glad to share with them belies the whole purpose of educational exchange and a better world understanding...
...implications or for the immediate inconveniences caused by taking the step without adequate warning to those who are already here or on the way. As Dr. Cooper, the United States Commissioner of Education, has stated: "The whole purpose of student exchange and of the granting of non-quota status to allen students, which is the encouragement of international good-will, is interfered with, if not wrecked, by this regulation if it is enforced...