Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watson sets a tentative quota for off-campus living in January of each year, and then revises it several times, following mid-year grades, at the beginning of reading period and at the end of the school year...
...addition, Watson said that the quota of juniors and seniors allowed to live off-campus had been raised from the 25 announced last May "2 or 3 or 4" in each House according to the individual Master's discretion...
...August Watson sent the Masters a letter raising the quota. Then last week those juniors and seniors who last Spring had asked to leave the Houses, but could not because the original quota of 25 had been filled, were given the opportunity...
Under the increased quota, Adams House lost 8 more students, bringing to 33 the total from Adams now living off campus, more than any other house. "A few exceeded the 25, some stayed there and one (Winthrop which has 21 off-campus) didn't," Watson said. "They must be having a lot of fun down in Winthrop," Watson added...
...employer found the pickings easy. Wringing its Esso tiger's tale once again, Houston's Humble Oil & Refining Co. sent heavily publicized "Tiger Teams" to 300 campuses, managed to fill a record quota of 825 jobs. But Ford deployed 340 recruiters to find 2,000 new graduates, figures to wind up with only 1,500 or so. Chicago's Inland Steel sweetened its 1966 salaries by as much as 8%, still fell so short of engineers that it began scouring Canadian campuses. Illinois Bell Telephone recruiters confess that "we even hired a theology student last month...