Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of a department could set up a rigid quota system and I suppose the University would have no objection," Ford said, "though he [the department chairman] might get complaints from some of the section men or from his colleagues...
Thomas A. Timberg '64, chairman of the HCUA committee on exam grading, claimed last week that Gov 1 uses "an unfair and inequitable" quota system that limits the number of honor grades to be awarded in each section...
Ford said he did not know which courses have quota systems and which do not, and that the recent publicity about the grading curve in Gov 1 was the first he had heard about the quota system...
Rodman was replying to charges made last week by the chairman of an HCUA committee to study examination grading. The chairman asserted that Government 1 employed an "unfair and inequitable quota system" of grading which penalized students in unusually good sections...
Spokesmen for the Government Department responded yesterday to the HCUA's recent charges by explaining that Gov. 1 bases its grading on a "broad flexible standard" and not a "rigid quota system...