Word: quota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announced as the quota is $20,000, but Robbins told his hundreds of aides gathered in Adams House last night that "this is only a minimum." Of this figure, $5,000 will go to the University of Peking, China, and the University of East Punjab, India, $4,000 will go to the Salzburg Rest Center in Salzburg, and $3,000 will go both to the University of Athens and to Heidelberg...
...young men aged 19 to 25. To provide the added strength, and constant replacements, the total number needed in the first year: 720,000. Even with deferments for World War II veterans, married men, doctors, scientists, etc., it ought not to be hard for the Government to fill that quota. It might be hard on some young men. The draft would be for a minimum of two years. The Government might register all U.S. men from 19 to 45, just to have everybody...
...almost 500 mobilized here and at Radcliffe, Samuel M. Robbins '45, newly-designated chairman of the University branch of the World Student Service Fund for the rehabilitation of foreign scholarship, promised last night that "we'll make 'em forget what apathy feels like," in pressing for a $20,000 quota...
Increased enrollment and the construction of the Lamont Library have contributed generously to the dilemma, said Metcalf. Although all tomes in the Union and Boylston Libraries and many from Widener will be transferred to the new building, Metcalf anticipates that at least ten percent of the 60,000 volume quota will not yet to be on hand for the opening of the undergraduate library next Christmas...
...walk-ins Thursday and the 18 on Friday added just enough to meet the quota...