Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this mood of conviviality caused an undergraduate to establish a bar in the bottom of a two-story charabanc, efforts were made to modify the diversions of Yale's Derby Day. It remained, last week, the chief holiday week-end of New Haven's spring. A quota of canoes, rocked by apparently inebriate paddlers, capsized above the dam. Presumably due to Depression, only half the seats were sold in the observation train. Critics who doubted the ability of the championship Cornell crew were embarrassed by the race at Derby. Cornell, in the unlucky west lane, did not bother...
...Munroe, Jr. '31, president of this year's Student Council, as having been nominated for election to the council of 1931-32. Seven Juniors and three Sophomores will be chosen from this group, and upon election will meet to chose three additional Juniors and two more Sophomores completing the quota of the council...
...been computed as amounting to $525,010, a year, (Complete figures of each house are given in a table elsewhere in the story.) The total rent that had to be raised to cover the House Plan was estimated by the University. Each house was teen assigned to raise its quota of the amount and prices were put on the various rooms. Although the figures that each house must raise could not be altered, each House Master had the right to lower and raise the price of some individual rooms. Some of the new House Masters made adjustments while in Dunster...
...sterling men of [that] first generation were impelled by the strong religious and stern Puritanical code of their time which demanded that each should give a tithe of his income to benevolent purposes and a greater or less quota of his time to the public interest. Philanthropic and patriotic service was instilled weekly in every pulpit, for practically everyone attended church...
...Joseph Duveen's. He has a partiality for race courses, and usually contrives to put a little on the loser. When he is traveling, his aversion to solitude at breakfast taxes the ingenuity of his secretaries, who have to provide a daily quota of guests at unseasonable hours. He is a Jew, not disciplinarian in practice, and he dresses with scrupulous care. Good American as he is, he prefers to buy his ties in London...