Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentiment for repeal of the Japanese exclusion act. In recent years the opinion has spread that the exclusion was unnecessary, and even unjust. The notion that Japanese immigration furnished dangerous competition for American labor was gradually being dispelled. The two hundred Japanese who would be admitted yearly by the quota system could hardly disturb American labor even in the depression...
There are times, too, when we like to eat in town with a friend, or times when some extra sleep would do us good. But no, we have to eat in Cambridge and have to got up for breakfast because our quota of meals has not been filled...
...where groups of men from different districts are brought together is obviously better and more broadening than a college composed of men entirely from a limited locality. It is easy to avoid the provincialism of some of the Western colleges by any process that is based on a modified quota system. But such a method is not making for progress in college standards...
...With a quota set for each district, it is clear that in order to make up the required number, unfit men often must be admitted else the group will be incomplete. In either case this is unfair to a man of ability who may be excluded because the men from his locality have been chosen. A more progressive plan has been adopted at Harvard where men from districts that ordinarily do not prepare for Harvard are admitted if they rank in the first seventh of their class, and other requirements are satisfied. Here is an unqualified selective process...
Just what is an endowed university's responsibility to society? Whatever it is, it is certainly never financial or political. Its essential purpose is social. It is the responsibility to give to society its quota of educated men, men who are equipped by an institution to make the best contributions possible to the world in which they live. This is true in normal times; periods of financial depression tend to double this responsibility rather than add one of monetary obligation...