Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Membership in this organization is now considerably below its possible quota, due in large measure to the tendency among graduates to lose touch with their college upon entering the business or professional world. Presumably the average undergraduate leaves Harvard with the idea of maintaining a contact of some sort with the University. For the fulfillment of this desire, the various Harvard clubs from a very practical medium, but lose much of their effectiveness in postponing membership eligibility until the severance of all active connection with the college...
...Little's speech is not the solution. His proposal to replace the present system with a series of psychological and intelligence quota tests is not plausible for two essential reasons. Not only does his plan verge on the hinterland of idealism and as such is too heavily embellished with the burden of impracticality, but it has the further disadvantage of serving as a tonic for a faltering system which needs a panacea. In scratching the surface, the College Boards, Dr. Little's "humanitarism" scrapes clean of the root of the whole trouble...
...current year (1929-30) of as much as £30,000,000. . . . Undoubtedly the chief depressing influences were the decline in the price of wool and . . . a pronounced tightening in the international money markets [which] has seriously affected the capacity of London to supply Australian Governments with their usual quota of loan funds?from £25,000,000 to £30,000,000 per annum in recent years...
President Hoover did not have to be told by Capt. Allen Buchanan, his naval aide and conference adviser in Florida, that limitation so high that the U. S. might have to spend half a billion dollars on new ships to attain its quota strength was not the reduction of naval armaments the President had first publicly set his heart...
...quota of 35 persons who may be admitted to the University Theatre tonight to see the pre-view showing of "Dynamite" has not yet quite been filled. Those who desire to take advantage of this opportunity may register at the CRIMSON building between 11 and 1 o'clock...