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Word: quota (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Harvard men clung fondly to the notion that Adams House food was superior food. The tense air about the early evening crowd in the dining hall line as the interhouse quota slowly filled up, the crushed look on the young faces of those who did not make it-these things, one used to think, showed something about the quality of Adams food...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Peas Are Greener | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

About ten percent of the University's Red Feather quota remains to be raised, Robert H. Haynes, chairman of the Harvard Unit of the Community Fund, reported yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Feather Reaches 90 Per Cent of Total | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

Amory led the 16 man field running for the school board with the 4756 votes he polled on the initial count but he is still 793 votes shy of the quota for election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amory Wins in School Election | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...Chicago meeting the Council also condemned the racial quota system for college admissions as not "compatible with democratic principles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harris Advocates Federal Aid for Higher Education | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Informed sources at Princeton claim that alumni and members of a minority of the clubs "will never agree to this system." The University has no actual right to step in and take action without unanimous approval of the new quota system and without unanimous approval of the inter-club committee, something that seems impossible at present. Hence the current stalemate...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Princeton Clubs Divided on Proposal to Open Membership to 100 Percent of Upper Classes | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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